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Zinnias.(Poem)

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| March 01, 2008 | Owen, Jan | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
ZINNIAS 
 
   O fiercely classical rectitude, 
   brazen offerings 
   on puritanical stems, 
   rippled plates of delight 
   on righteous pedestals, 
   Biblical 
   as in the Song of Songs, 
   I honour you. 
   Red-pink-orange-creamly 
   formal hierarchies of lower air, 
   your gold dust centres 
   happiest pannikins. 
   Each day your stems persist, 
   small saints of Ikebana, 
   I straighten further my spine. 
 
   They've struck a ...

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