Pushed away: Dahlias

It ducks: away from abundance, away from closeness, away from anything sacred, on the working assumption that being found would go badly and being seen would go worse. Maternal rejection arriving early taught it that presenting itself was the exact moment things went wrong, so concealment became the reflex and refusal became the forecast. What it asks for is to stay in the open through one whole encounter and record what actually happens.

If something holy came looking for me, I'd be under the stairs before it reached the door.

It echoes Adam among the trees at the sound of the walking, covering himself and answering only after he had been called by name. The form implies a task: to answer once from open ground.