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Natural Selection
Christian Knoeller

Pausing before each orchid
as if a Station of the Cross

she has risen before dawn
to tend her tropical flock

as if listening for the trill
of a bird so rare

it’s thought extinct
the whispered prayer

of an exiled child
every petal

an icon of light

 

 

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