'Anemones'

When Adonis was killed — gored by a boar while hunting, dying in Aphrodite's arms — his blood fell to the earth and from it grew anemones. Wind flowers. The name comes from the Greek for wind: anemos. They were believed to bloom wherever the wind carried Aphrodite's grief.

The dying-and-rising god appears in virtually every ancient tradition: Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysus, Adonis, eventually Christ. The pattern — death, descent, return — was not borrowed. It was observed. In the seasons. In the grain. In the human story of losing something and finding it transformed.

The anemone closes at night and opens in the morning. Every morning it decides again to open.

This is for the woman who has died at least once and knows what it means to return.