Kingdom:
PlantaeSubkingdom:
TracheobiontaSuperdivision:
SpermatophytaDivision:
MagnoliophytaClass:
MagnoliopsidaSubclass:
RosidaeOrder:
MyrtalesFamily:
OnagraceaeGenus:
Fuchsia L. Cobra light
Squeezing the breath from the
blood bellsOf the
fuchsia. I could draw no breath,
Dead and moneyless,
Overexposed, like an
X-ray.
Sylvia Plath (b.1932, d.1963), excerpted from
Medusa.