Many Flowers Need Salt To Grow

- Lenya Norea Wegener (Germany)

Some people are born with salt in their wounds

but I will stop putting in more.

I will plant some flowers in my garden

and hope they make it through the fences

into my neighbour’s home

I will not run out of love

I pledge it

like the drunken

pledge the liquor.

The cup will always be full

if you let it.