Three green hearts on one stem;
above them on its tower the white,
five petalled flower,
mauve-veined, gold-hearted,
stamens offered tenderly,
growing all about the lower
paths of Ravenwood,
among moss,
between roots
of birch and ash -
all among the woodland
roots: twined candle-holders
cradling rising boles
beneath their bark.striations.
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Bare Shouldered
Poetry"The difference of high Sensations with and without knowledge appears to me this - in the latter case we are falling continually ten thousand fathoms deep and being blown up again without wings and with all [the] horror of a bare shouldered Creature...
