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Max Trying to kid us that this Belladonna is a bulb!!!! -Ha Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards Sent: 03 March 2009 21:51 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: snap: late summer bloom Late Summer Bloom This belladonna, bold pink - no, not 'deadly nightshade', merely 'naked lady' - came back with me from the park to my cluttered desk. I didn't pluck it - it had fallen. A row of them comes up late February without fail, however dry and hot as now. Its lack of leaves I fancy. Planted some decades past when that brick cottage housed apple-orchardists. Council bought them out, took down fences and sheds. Underground they lurk still, the bulbs, tough, reliable - up thrust the stalks, they bloom - splaying this one week wide petals, desired, vulnerable. 2 Belladonna, lusting for you I ordered by mail six bulbs, planted in short grass near the park rail. The grass grew - and stalks! - the motor-mower came, shredded, levelled. No stalks, no bloom. In my mind's eye, might-have-been naked ladies, you're the sexiest never seen. Wednesday 4 March 2009 Max Richards Doncaster, Vic [However, rain yesterday came with the killer winds, so the state suffered only fallen trees and the firefighters had some respite.] ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.6/1981 - Release Date: 03/03/09 07:25:00