The gerbera’s dark eye
stares into my soul,
questions the distractions
pulling me off balance.
Black pinheads
cluster in the centre
girdled by an iris
of inner petals.
A serrated disc of orange
suspended,
like a spinning plate
that one day decided to stop.
A single stem of happiness.
I am enough.
(first published by Dreich, Summer Anywhere anthology, July 2021)