TO BE RECITED TO FLOSSIE ON HER BIRTHDAY

Let him who may
among the continuing lines
seek out

that tortured constancy
affirms
where I persist

let me say
across cross purposes
that the flower bloomed

struggling to assert itself
simply under
the conflicting lights

you will believe me
a rose
to the end of time

(WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS)

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