You were my heraldic fleur-de-lis
but the dictionary says
you were a large trumpet
shaped flower,
bulbous,
that you lived
lily-livered
on a tall stem,
gloomy.
You still send three petalled
messages to me;
in your coat,
in your arms,
in the pure white
of freshly baked rolls,
my fleur-de-lis.
