Article: Tiger-Lilies & Horse-Chestnuts.(Poem)

Tiger-Lilies & Horse-Chestnuts 
 
   Had I been alive when flowers 
   could interchange with hands 
   I'd have attached a tiger-lily 
   to one wrist, branch 
   of a horse-chestnut tree to the other. 
 
   My six tapered lily-fingers 
   would enclose whatever I wished: 
   a plum, an apricot, a stone marked 
   with veinwork that matched their petals. 
   That flower-hand could also spread open, 
   the hand of a child performing 
   a Balinese finger-dance, while my 
   horse-chestnut hand's fan-shaped leaves 
   would cool me and intercept the dust. 
 
   But if so ...

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