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Fritillaria, (Snakes Head)

Where diamonds shape a lantern
harlequins are taunted in jest,
which inaugurates the conviction
attracting an upheld stance.
They stare like a drastic mistake;
thinking it was a corn snake.

Warily, from side to side, surprise!
one way or the other fully fixed; 
around those surrounding sceneries 
hypnotic is the way its eyes transfix.

It nullifies a moment to the ground
container-like as bulbous ends disturb
like a death's-head rattling sound,
by this inconspicuous perrenial herb.

It is limp to the elusive sun approach
dictating to the forty five degree-
holds head as moments waiting there,
gardeners probe this mauve naivety. 
It deceives so contrarily it contrives
I guess that's how fritillary survives.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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