February's Flowers

They're purple and grey and green with a little orange and made of cotton. And they're sewn together with lots of love and a super soft minky backside. Then they're mailed to a city on the eastern seaboard, a city still cold and snowy and deep into winter. To my cousin Jodi who needs to know that her California cousins are thinking of her and wishing they were there to make her matzoh ball soup to nourish her during her chemo appointments.

For now February's flowers will have to do.