trimmed. Not cut with care. Ripped, with the particular damage of people who pulled them from the ground without thought for roots or soil or the decades that had made them.
Bare stems lay where they had been dropped. The gaps in the garden were the gaps of things taken and not replaced.
They had been used in the wedding arch.
I could see the arch at the far end of the lawn.
The flowers were wilted now, forty-eight hours after being torn from the only soil they had known,
