You wake up and the world is a buffet of edible flowers. What will you eat? What will you save? What will you gaze at the longest?

Editor’s note: try writing in tercets for a bonus challenge.

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Anuja Ghimire is an author of four poetry books: two in Nepali Ankur and Arthaat, and two in English Kathmandu and fable-weavers. Her poems, stories, essays have been anthologized and nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, published in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Scotland, and Australia. She works in the e-learning industry. She is an associate editor for Up the Staircase Quarterly, newsletter editor for Nepalese American Chamber of Commerce, and a judge for the annual essay writing contest for school children in DFW, organized by the Nepalese Buddhist Association. She loves conducting creative writing workshops for children in summer camps. She also volunteers for The Great Nepali Diaspora as the lead for the Creative Hub.