as an Eastertide greeting by Shirley Marais (Higgins)
the leaves pinnate odd or even no alternate compound certainly alternate and pinnately compound and serrated toothed feather-formed some say the fanciful the leaflets arranged alternately around the petiole the stalk that joins the leaflets to the stem and the in-breath where the leaves end before the sepals begin and the sepals themselves those five brothers who hold the consummate red roses are shrubs climbing or trailing the stems of which are usually armed copiously with prickles commonly known as thorns oh never mind and never mind the thorns it’s the fragrance saturation of light and form and colour that aches the heart give me the aching colour the star-shaped scent that speaks in the deep heart my brother give me the starry fragrance that aches on the in-breath and awakens my heart’s deep sun so for a moment I can feel I am a brother of the heavens and of the earth
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