Some flowers are not meant to open fully. Lilium lophophorum, for instance. Full bloom, its petal-tips stay fused so that it waves like a golden lantern over these crowded meadows—see how it guards its pollen heart from harsh weather, its silkspun roots tucked deep in grass-tangle. See how it only tips, undamaged, to the sun. Like a womb around a fine, well-lit secret.