Formation

Formation

Under the cool wrap of spring a rose began to form inside of a seashell that had been abandoned by a child playing games on the shore of a swamp. The plant grew to a height unbelievable to the little girl’s parents. The family walked outside to view the enormous growth and, though the girl, Melinda, was thrilled at the elephant-sized rose bud, her mother shuddered and said, “I think it’s a sin for a flower to grow that big.”
Her father swore at the way it covered the sky. “It’s going to kill the lawn.” He said he intended to cut it down. But, Dad was a procrastinator and promptly forgot his plans. So the rose kept growing. Soon it was so big it reached a star and set a table at another galaxy’s throne. The Queen of the Universe was not too thrilled with this intrusion and she promptly proclaimed that it was forbidden for roses by any name to take part in activities that were attended to by stars or moons or planets other than the Earth, where it was well known that anything could happen.
So the flower fell back to Earth to the shore where Melinda collected the dead rose petals and created an enormous book in which to press them. This took her several years to finish. Her hair grew. Her nails grew. Her breasts grew. And her parents’ hair turned gray. Finally she finished the book on the day she graduated from high school.
“Melinda, you always overdo everything. Why can’t you just be normal?” Her mother exclaimed, glaring at the book that took up the space of their own front yard as well as two of their neighbors yards.
“Things like this are just not done in suburbia.”
Melinda was hurt. She was quite proud of her achievement and was determined not to be discouraged.
“I’ll just move to New York City,” She said. “You can do anything there.”
So Melinda hooked up the book to the back of her car and pulled it to New York where she became rich and famous, but unfortunately also went stark raving mad. She had three children that all had rose buds for eyes and a husband that was a gambler and tore out pages of the famous book to sell until there was nothing left. Melinda became an alcoholic and died penniless on the streets on skid row.
However her children, with the rosebud eyes, became quite famous on Broadway as a singing group. They eventually retired from show business, endorsed a brand of rose food and opened a chain of garden supply stores named Melinda’s. They lived forever on the top of a Manhattan skyscraper with gardens that grew to heaven and back.

Formation is acrylic on canvas 24”x36”
July 2009

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