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I want to read a piece
from the wildflower prose

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poems I did a few years ago.

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This is called
"Desert hibiscus."

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"I think of bed sheets not
quite warm and momentarily open,

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ready to receive, in spring
and summer lavender petals

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reveal stamens and stigmas
approaching center flower.

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Leaves cold, dry
light near the blooms

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whose willingness, all gentle,
forms an aura cloistering

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whatever we project
softer than velour, of

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rose light and clear weather.

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