Photo Credit: © Copyright D.A. Brown
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Reflections on the Backyard Magnolia Stellata
The combustion is multiple,
orbital, each white fire
from bud to bud bursts forth,
is brilliance strung, from
a god's opened hand.
Life of sparks originate
a mystery of flare;
infinite starlit creation.
Familiar flames permeate
and subtly subsume.
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