Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Orchid




The orchid looks anything but innocent. It is not a victim uprooted with sympathy. Its fangs curve like a predator ready to swallow its prey whole. Pale blue lines strike across white petals, veins beneath pale skin. In the nighttime, silhouetted by moonlight, Hazel wishes her father would remove it, plant it alongside the monkshood and rampion in the garden. 

Text by Lucie MacAulay

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