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The Desert Pea
You would nurse it shut
as Nightingale nursed each night:
fresh dressing at dawn,
mother fingers pressing the purse lips closed for sleep.
Now I am invited (or so my little advisor claims)
to manage its opening, permanent.
One curious inspection leaves the
hospital yearning for a whole Crimea of bleedings.
Philip White
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