“Blooming
By Pauline Le Bel

Blooming

Earth is four billion-years old
and still beguiling us with flowers,
a project she began in her dotage.

Who knows what deep inside me
is still waiting to bloom.




Poems in Passage

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Picture of the Blooming poem by Pauline Le Bel taken on the Toronto subway in May, 2026.