http://books.google.com/books?id=iFFsm8V2h1YC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Even the flowers are fucked into being, between sun and earth. But it's a delicate thing, and takes patience and the long pause" (301).

"And eagerly she

picked the velvet and primrose flowers" (131).

(353) 85:34 Persephone Persephone, daughter of Zeus (Jupiter), was captured by Hades (Pluto) while gathering flowers and taken to his underworld kingdom. She was allowed to return to earth every spring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina