Posted by willo'thewisp on May 25, 2008, 6:11 am, in reply to "Many Facets and Faces"
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wonderful - are you still smoking those 'happy cigarettes'?
--Previous Message--
: In the light of the early morning or late
: evening the flowers are, if anything, more
: beautiful. No stark dazzle in the midst of
: the day, no hunt for the suffocated shadow
: among the afternoon heat....
:
: I can't see it there, what I'm looking for.
: But in between the flower beds, at the show,
: walks the dealer who feels wronged. And in
: between the flowers he has his photo in a
: frame in my greenhouse. He doesn't upset the
: plants hiding in their cloches from other
: pests.
:
: So, pottering here and there at the show,
: getting pics of the new arrivals after the
: turf's stripped back and earth dug, I've my
: thoughts on how it got to here. What it was
: that drove our kingdom -- our animal kingdom
: as much as our own dis-United Kingdom --
: down this path toward the compost heap.
: Where we accept the labour of others in
: far-off lands, giving them a pittance, and,
: meanwhile, squabble amongst ourselves as to
: where the cannabis plants are growing: which
: bed we sniff for our delirium. It won't do.
: Weaverham's blooming not swooning, in case
: you hadn't noticed.
:
: So I'll get back to my plants, tending the
: delicate blooms, the orchids you can't put
: out there because they'd be snapped up for
: someone's buttonhole -- or a bunch at a
: bedside. If they weren't such bad luck. But
: then we've a fascination for sickly beauty
: nowadays. Perfume in full-page spreads on
: the ultra-thin.
:
: In the evening, when the light fades, the
: true scents come into their own. The heat of
: the day has gone and the foxes play in the
: distance. The world's still united under it
: all.
:
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