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I will not, I will not pull you up, cockof-
the-beds among the last of the tulips,
the narcissi like used up tea-bags,
the breaking blue of forget-me-nots.
A purple admiral with one torn wing
unfolds its proboscis and dips-dips-deep
into petals of dense bright birds’ tongues,
butter yellow, singing your colour,
your field-full of sunflowers.
Who else does this – metamorphosis?
Just now a bullfinch sipping up your seed,
his blush halting my conversation.
Feather-head, fuzz-ball, blow-in-the-wind.
I see through shards of the cerebellum
as each hour scatters – a tender, ripped shining.
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