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Edelweiss

ON AN EDELWEISS IN THE BACK OF SCHRÖTER’S ALPINE FLORA

There it sits, transfixed and flattened
Between the green and floral-patterned
Endpapers. Nine woolly bracts, and within
An embroidered silver star, fringed
With silk, held in place with the serrated
Edging from a book of stamps, labelled
In pencil: “Santa Maria, July 1952.” Where
Did she send them: those postcards stamped
With gum licked by the same wet tongue?
Was she quite out of breath when she held it
To her breast? Or cold, detached, exact,
Pasting it in place with a narrowed eye
And a pursed lip, flattening it precisely?
Did she kiss its flannelled face, or snap
The cover, a sprung trap, after depriving it
Of sky?

Poem by Giles Watson, 2009.

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Taken on: July 16, 2009
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