Easy – a poem by Elisa A. Garza

Easy

“as if it was easy for the world to make flowers”
	Ada Limón, “In the Shadow”

Dependable like sunlight, color
bursts onto every berm and field,
seemingly effortless, a new season
appearing overnight, as if flowers
make the world, such making
easy as opening a bloom,
easy as breath, a sigh in the dark.

If only each of us could exhale
flowers, see the beauty we birth
as we breathe, the blossoms
teeming with potential,
with connection, a belonging
easy as color belongs to flowers,
easy as hope, budding in a field.

Elisa A. Garza is a poet, editor, and writing teacher. Her full-length collection, Regalos (Lamar University Literary Press), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her chapbook, Between the Light / entre la claridad (Mouthfeel Press), is now in its second edition. Elisa’s sacred poems were recently published in The Ekphrastic Review. Her writing about cancer has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, American Journal of Nursing, and Huizache, who nominated her for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing workshops for cancer survivors.