Writing from the stemistry lab
Boothus Salvatore
by Marilyn Longstaff
natural habitat – where few would venture
This rare orchid has a red, blue and yellow striped cornet.
The strands of its white beard rattle like jingles on a tambourine,
and the wind blowing down its trumpet makes a high yet mellow sound,
like a flugelhorn playing, Boundless Salvation.
Boothus Salvatore thrives on the blood of unlovely insects
that other plants reject, is very hardy even surviving forest fires,
converts rain to the purest water you could drink, which gathers
in the cornet’s neck; a proven life-saver.
Its flower smells of sweet charity.