rosebush

If I left my house in Elba, I could walk to twelve trees, an ant mound, a hornets’ nest, and a bunch of rosebushes.

The rest of the house was covered with rosebushes so thick, they looked as though they would crush the house at any moment.

Dogwood trees with bright pink flowers and rosebushes of every color lined the brick road that led to Division Street.

They were too crisp, too fresh, too pure and white to be anything but from the same rosebush as the ones I’d given Mamá.

Journalists honored the five Capital Gazette employees who were shot to death in their newsroom last year by unveiling a plaque Friday with the names of the dead in a garden next to five rosebushes.