open sky :: SAMVAAD/1st March
- sanjuktaa
- Mar 1
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
a cactus bloom
we are all that special
-Jan Stretch
(The Dua Anthology 16,'a dream flickers', ed by Ai Li, October 2025)
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Jan Stretch shared this beautiful backstory with us:
To the best of my memory this poem was sparked after our Christmas cactus produced a single bloom out of season last year. I remembered how much my late husband loved our indoor Saguaro cactus of 40+ years and how thrilled he was when it bloomed once many years ago, as the bloom only lasts 24 hours. I was writing a lot of grief poems after he passed and the memory of the Saguaro bloom brought joy and wonderful memories of our time in the Arizona desert.
Nice!!
Great contrast and poignancy. Lovely to see a dua here.