LADY’S SLIPPER ORCHID
I recall Dion Fortune’s phrase somewhere:
That orchids nurse hatred for people
But I feel,
staring at your fabulously
Silly Flower
That nothing so hilarious
Could nurse hatreds and contempts.
That in your full-booted truth
You are just as you need to be.
Though extinction be your neighbour
Along with yew and limestone,
You continue;
A miracle by this footpath,
Smiling brightly
In the sun and rain.
Cypripedium calceolus I salute you!
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