I missed the link, Edmund, who is the author of The Red Gaze?
The quote is curiously visual in detail (which I like), but without
reference to what's really going in the botanical infrastructure (the actual
chemistry) - where I think a certain kind of postmodernism would definitely
explore the linguistic trove that might exist there, as well. Or the
juxtaposition of the two - empiricism versus the formulae of the science.
Just speculating here,
Stephen
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> I slightly misremembered it, but the line is from The Red Gaze:
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> Red, purple, brown Guardian leaf.
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> Complications of red enter the leaf
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> and its is more accomplished,
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> turning brown then gray in varying attitudes
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> after the snow begins. Colorful complications
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> disturb serenity, causing our eye
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> to wander over the shaking tree.
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