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Karla Linn Merrifield
William Bartram Triptych
Late 18th-‐century American naturalist
I. Postcard to Bartram
Dear Willy,
You old, romantic son-‐of-‐a-‐gun, you!
Seducing me as you once did
Coleridge and Wordsworth,
laying it on thick with
your eighteenth-‐century charm.
How florid of you to woo me
with visions of lustrous Florida, to lure me with lavish exotic tongue.
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