Max Trying to kid us that this Belladonna is a bulb!!!! -Ha Patrick
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Sent: 03 March 2009 21:51
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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.]
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