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Plant Watch

</>many-handed like a home crowd welcomes a congressman
visiting his district with their petitions
a rhododendron supplicates the sun
with shiny hard-coated dark green leaves
each a pair of closed lips narrow at the corners
swollen in the middle each with the same
hard-to-read expression not quite a smirk
lips can't be expressionless even when asleep
but can be between expressions as these are
though even pauses can be read by intimates
the sun can be counted on most of the year
unlike politicians if you're asking and aren't paying
'Ahhhhh' they think and almost say
like the lips of sunbathers on a beach
in their paired and oiled hundreds a chorus
that would not have gathered singing but for the sun

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