The Christmas Rose 
All is pale, 
elegant long stems almost translucent
With bright green leaves outspread.
Anemone-like flowers that keep coming 
Long after the 12thnight and well into Epiphany.
Buds keep coming and stalks gangling, 
like awkward adolescent limbs.
 
 
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