Poinsettia

A perfect poinsettia twig grows, 

three years old twig, and well;

a perfect poinsettia leaf holds well 

out its leaf like a sheaf 

of softly velvet cheek;

she stands aloft shivering with 

the vibrations of the keyboard's gyration.

An accident has happened to this tiny poinsettia that wants to live so badly, right after it was repotted into a lush and fertile new soil environment. You see where I have bound it up with green thread at the nearly-complete break? It does have lots of new shoots coming at the base, so it will live. Now, let's cheer on the original stem!

A few weeks later...