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from sequence "The Pansy Poems" previously published in Reactions, 4, 2003 and Songs from the Flats, 2005, Hearing Eye, ISBN 1-905082-01-0
Show Pansies
The blooms should be thick and circular, no waviness in the petals, they should possess a glossy, velvet appearance. In Kill ’em and eat ’em Street, we watch.
The face of the bloom should be slightly arched or convex, with a small eye. The dustbin lids have gone missing again.
The two centre petals should meet above and reach well up on the top two. The landladies are on the roof.
The lower petal should be sufficiently deep and broad for balance and each should lie evenly upon the others. They can’t find them either.
To elaborate further, the top of the lower petal should be straight and flat. But look what they’ve spotted.
The two centre petals should be arranged evenly on either side of an imaginary line drawn through the yellow eye. Someone’s hanging out washing at number 3.
The top of these petals should reach to the same height on the upper petals so that the whole of the bloom is evenly balanced. It isn’t Monday. Someone will pay.
Anna Robinson
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