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| what she liked was candy buttons, and books, and painted music (deep blue, or delicate silver) and the west sky, so altering, viewed from the steps of the back porch; and dandelions. she would have liked a lotus, or china asters or the japanese iris, or meadow lilies--yes, she would have liked meadow lilies, because the very word meadow made her breathe more deeply, and either fling her arms or want to fling her arms, depending on who was by, rapturously up to whatever was watching in the sky. but dandelions were what she chiefly saw. |
| yellow jewels for everyday, studding the patched green dress of her back yard. she liked their demure prettinesss second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower. |
| -gwendolyn brooks; maud martha |