Yellow jessamine
infects a premature Spring:
Fragrant and lethal.
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| Gelsemium sempervirens, known as yellow jessamine or Carolina jasmine, is a toxic plant with alkaloids related to strychnine that figures in the plot of an Agatha Christie mystery and an episode of House of Cards. |
March 23, 2020
Williamsburg, Virginia
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#CoronaHaiku at the suggestion of Daniel Mendelsohn
See also "The Fish Trap," winner of Sapiens.org anthropological poetry prize
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