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 meets — nothing — renews itself in metal or porcelain — whither ? It ends — But if it ends the start is begun so that to engage roses becomes a geometry — Sharper, neater, more cutting figured in majolica — the broken plate glazed with a rose Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses If is at the edge of the petal that love waits Crisp, worked to defeat laboredness — fragile plucked, moist, half-raised cold, precise, touching