The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, front within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing (can end here) as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the