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Sue Leigh Poetry

Flora
I cannot make anything
more lovely than these names
eyebright
also called bird’s eye, rock rue
meadow cranesbill
blue buttons, gipsy, grace of God
salad burnet
travellers’ joy
lady’s slipper or Virgin’s shoe
(might there be one left)
Venus’s looking glass
early purple orchid
known too as Gethsemane
pasque flower
and the purple rampion,
does it grow still on Silbury Hill
Published in ‘Chalk’, a pamphlet published by Evergreen Press, 2022
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