Teen Ink

   The golden blond

plunged

six sunflowers

into a vase

filled with water.

Arranged

them

so that customers' eyes

would become

magnetically fixed

upon her creation.

The tallest one standing in the

center

of the smaller five.

The day being withered away,

she zipped up her green coat

along her toothpick frame

and returned home

where

she stood in the

circle

of her five embracing clones ...

and gulped down a glass of

water.