When is a rose bush just a rose bush? Well, certainly not in this blogpost, where the flowers take on a life of their own. Discussion of making meaning through ekphrasis and some lovely photos of multiflora roses, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Ramble roses
Cousins toward the fence,
nothing purples like a poke
from your thin fingers.
Rosaline hue,
though you are overdue
for bramble shirring --
enough of all this
rampant fleuring;
you pique and parson
off the lot.
What? Twenty-four of you?
It overfloats the cottage
with a boulverse of corsages,
each leaflet nimbly covering
each sister leaflet's folly,
each reddened cheek a hush
and a pensive glance,
a turn along the avenue.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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