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Saturday, January 19, 2013

THE ECHINATE STEMS OF ROSES

The echinate stems of the roses
The young man presents to his love:
Of what do they bespeak?
Willful heartache from submission
Begat by promises of splendor
With magnificent numbing barbs
Fetching a rush of blood
And collapse of velvet petals?
 
(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day:  Echinate--spiny, prickly, bristling)

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