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A caddisfly on a petunia is knocked
By a daylily leaf batting
In the wind, into a patch
Of burning antirrhinums.

Blackbirds clattering in pairs out
In the wind come cackling
Softly, into a patch
Of burning antirrhinums.

A lawnmower shudders to a stop and
The failing sound of the
Engine falls into a patch
Of burning antirrhinums.

Antirrhinums burn avocado-green
And pink-seashell and hang
God-orange their heads
With like broken necks.