Interestingly enough, the idea of the absent flowers takes a turn with the ironic sense that they are abounding. Even though abounding, by denotation, means abundant, I associate it with life forms, not dead and/or nonexistent flowers. The irony is in comparison to the other images that were set up in the poem that are viewed in two entirely different contexts throughout the poem in that they all start out quiet and almost graceful, but take a violent, terrible twist at the end. This could perhaps relate to Justice’s memories as he remembers them in greater detail as time passes, although maybe he wishes he was incapable of remembering more than the glossy surface.

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