I bought the bouquet on impulse, as I walked through the underground labyrinth of halls and shops that surround my office building. The heavy aroma of life flourishing in winter, a scent captured and held richly thick in the stale dry air of the complex, caught my wandering attention and unconsciously drew my serious thoughts back toward home, evoking for me the woman who waited, anticipating my return. I imagined her smile, her warm needy embrace, and without realizing why my thoughts had taken such a romantic turn, I looked up to face the dozens of dark blossoming rosebuds.
“Hey, Mal, what’ll it be?” asked Cecilia. The small florist with her thick mane of colored hair and bright eyes had sold me ten thousand flowers during the past decade, arming me for courtships, engagement,marriage and now this.
“My love is like a red, red rose,” I recited. Burns is one of those poets who always seemed thin and reedy, yet forever popping off my tongue.
“Sure thing,” Cecilia said. “Dozen? Boxed, bundled or delivered?”
“Yeah,” I replied. “I want to hand her a bouquet, when I walk in the door.”
“Gotcha,” the florist said, walking back to the glass cabinets to start choosing my delicate array of buds.
“How is your wife?”
“Almost ready to burst,” I said with a smirk.
“When’s she due?”
“Three weeks,” I sighed.
Time never goes slower, it seems, than the last month of pregnancy. Cecilia cut the stems with a sharp blade, added some baby’s breath and nestled the flowers in a blanket of green cellophane.
“You’ll get these in water within the hour,” Cecilia instructed, taking my cash and making my change.
“Good luck,” she added. “Is it a boy or a girl or do you know?”
“Thanks, probably a boy. I always assume the worst.”
Ceclia laughed as I walked away, blossoms in hand.
It strikes as a moment’s joy, the sudden radiance in a woman’s eyes as she receives a flattering gift and I basked in the warmth of Diana’s appreciative glow.
“You’re so sweet,” she said, beaming.
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