the petal girl
skin silk pink
onion thin
blush
crepe paper sun-streaked fuchsia
and in
rain
battered
bruised
membrane
in
heat, frilled
unfresh edged
lettuce-leaf veined
browned in crush
curled
too sheer to
squeeze
still
beautiful
Photo: Claire Doble
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