​'On Flowers' is a response to Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno with a secret particular fondness for his cat, Geoffrey. Butoh exalts the unfinished - this video has some of that. It is the flower dance in its first germination, whereas the writing here is closer to its current calyx.

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Still, 'On Flowers' is a dance of desire, bloom and death; a praise.

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Reaching. Merging. Hiding. Revealing. Dying; a nod towards a slow erotic; flower-light.

A magpie remembering the English dreamers, grieving Ophelia,

nesting in the insanity of beauty.

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As Smart says wisely:

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'For flowers are good both for the living and the dead.

For there is a language of flowers.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers.

For elegant phrases are nothing but flowers.

For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

For flowers are medicinal.

For flowers are musical in ocular harmony.'

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[Jubilate Agno]​