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Contorted into an effortless beauty
Petals curve to grace
Perched atop a slender stem
Venus beckons an embrace
In the false spring of her blooming
Bright colors aced the test
Leaves fondled; worth evaluated
Rescued from a merciful death
On the mahogany expanse she rests
In a narrow ceramic prison
Stewing in an infinite emptiness
As a hollow shell she isn’t
A transient grasp on the spotlight
Doomed by the trace of a wilt
Cannot recompense bygone appeal
Nor erase her dutiful guilt
Suddenly among unworthy compatriots
The drooping flower’s echo
Is smothered by dinner’s sad remnants
In an end foreseen long ago
Lindsey McAllister