Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell

this poem is describing the process of a flower like if it was a human being. a flower is beautiful specially when it is full grown. if a person opens up it could be very beautiful or very nasty/negative at the same time. the writer speaks about love and happiness as he describes the flower.every beautiful thing has something bad like the flower it has spines that might cut you. i also think he is describing how a rose becomes lively for example in spring and how bad it could be when is dying or how sad.