You

A picture of Shasta daisies hangs above my toilet

Purchased for two dollars at the thrift shop

Now they are in my garden too

Purchased for three dollars from the discount rack at Lowes

I bought the picture because

It made me think of Mount Shasta and

The first real camping trip I ever took  

With you

I bought the flower because they were on sale and

Not dead and

I like daisies

I wrote this poem

Shortly after midnight

Shortly after I realized that the daisies in the picture

Were the daisies in my garden and

Twelve years after our first date

Because I needed to write a poem on Monday and

I can’t go to the thrift store

Lowes or

To bed

Without thinking about you