White Dicentra Lady-in-the bath, Durchman's Breeches, Bleeding heart: you're burdened with so many names. None of them seem right. I fill a vase, milk-white like you. Come down in the night for tea I find your heart-shaped diodes sending out soft lunar light. Gill McEvoy

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