a tulip (the only thing)

you traced purple
curve & long stem

color extended 
from you—

dyed the room. 
we dove in

what i
wished on-
to wished in-
to
     occurred, first
i / the tulip

we read together:

be(d)side
eyes wide, 
warriors&warriors

where we reside,

we felt / the tulip 
grow through.

Author of the article

Nicole Knorr is a musician and artist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is an active composer, pianist, and poet currently pursuing an M.M. in Music Composition at the University of Michigan. Her work explores humanness—as experienced big or small, through color and sound, through lines drawn—lines sung—and lines that weave us together. Find more of her work at https://www.nicoleknorr.com.