Article: Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center. (Poetry).(Poem)

 
Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center 
 
   Dawns and dusks are dangerous 
   for flowers here. 
   Daisies, freshly bloomed, 
   barely stretched out infant petals 
   when snap!--off with their heads! 
   And the stems 
   like green spaghetti 
   stand witness to another heist 
   of the marauding deer. 
 
   Retreatants love their sightings 
   of a "Bambi." 
   Sister Rose, though, 
   trying to trink the grounds 
   with colorful blooms ...

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