Orders of Magnitude
One trembling flower,
Dessert as far as the eye can see. Endless void.
Mike Stone
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One trembling flower,
Dessert as far as the eye can see. Endless void.
Three short lines set a single living thing against an enormous emptiness. The poem opens with "one trembling flower," small and fragile, and then the view pulls back to a landscape of "dessert as far as the eye can see." The word is spelled like the sweet course, not "desert," which may be a typo…
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