"Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour."

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Source : Sam Hamill (2002). “Dumb Luck: Poems”, p.88, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Sam Hamill

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