Flower, which but?
Neither the tulip Nor the orchid Could make him Lively Like the Rose fossils Teaming up With the diary That poetic evening.
The poem is a small puzzle about what brings someone to life. Its epigraph asks, "Flower, which but?", as if a choice between flowers is being demanded. The answer comes in a single sentence: neither the tulip nor the orchid could make "him" lively, but something else did.
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