We Speak of Flowers by Eileen Chong Staff Favourites I never asked to be

I never asked to be the son of a Greek God

A new brother who doesn't fart on me and call it a 'tasty air biscuit'

she's the one who ends up being shocked to her core

who are widely distrusted

with a young boy in her care

We Speak of Flowers by Eileen Chong Staff Favourites I never asked to bePaperback From award winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations. We Speak of Flowers, Eileen Chong's sixth collection, is a wondrous extended elegy dedicated to her ancestors. Its 101 pieces are a spacious, meditative record of an attempt to make sense of grief in the face of great pain. Chong's