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Starflower
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41 S TA R F LO W E R Star of the upland woodlands, seven-petaled, not unlike the Pleiades’ seven sisters, you speckle the new green of the undergrowth beside the loose talus of the trail like flecks of sea foam amid a bed of browned pine needles. Wherever you bloom, starflower, your china white blazes, fixed like a pattern of starlight, your petals a constellation set among the shade spread along the mountain path every May. I see you everywhere since now I know your name. ...