Askold Melnyczuk — The Monarch Review

The Loves and Lusts of a Horticulturalist – Askold Melnyczuk, Heide Hatry

Sunday, October 30, 2011 14:40 — 2 Comments

Essay by Askold Melnyczuk and Photograph by Heide Hatry from the forthcoming book Not a Rose Flowers are flirts.  Like strippers in a church, they will not be overlooked.  They can’t help it.  They were born that way, sex organs on their sleeves.  Kind of like Lady Gaga.  Both invite us to speculate about appearances and time. For poets, roses once reported life is short. Heat cools. But poets are cowards, and lazy to boot.  They sang roses—span’s forever to a lily, whose biological clock chimes with the sun. Flowers bring us to our eyes, yet their implications vary by […]