blackout poetry : the preface of ‘Nature’s Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors’ x Lianna Schreiber
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humming birds / what infinite pains, the wants of each / relentlessly punished to save / alone the operation of Mind / how vice and virtue exist side by side in the world / every sinner branded / the shaved head claiming exalted / “this is a universe for flowers” / lacking faith / in order to know the flowers / their delightful, different blossoms / hidden away invaluable / showing a vast array of language / language as foreign, not to be deciphered / without the help of a stigma
