Rainbow goddesses rising

Iris is the goddess of the rainbow, and she lends her name to a family of flowers prized for their colorful beauty. I’m pretty iris-obsessed, as you may be able to tell from the logos on this website, so I have a number of varieties of the plant in my yard. The first irises to bloom this year are “Nassau Blue,” with powder blue flowers, and an iris that has white flowers with powder blue beards, the fuzzy parts in the center of each petal.

In defiance of the continuing war against BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA+ people being waged with guns in the streets, words in the media and laws/rulings in the legislative halls and courts, I will keep fighting the fire with flower power.

In fact, I always have fought the power with flowers. Here’s what I can remember of a poem I wrote when I was in elementary school:

Flower power
comes every hour
in the spring
nature brings
blooms of joy
for girls and boys
who run and play
every warm sunny day.