Famous Formulations (Midyear)

There could be a large book of this, a very large book, with simplified vocabulary.

It is a kind of nature, a kind of nature most definitely, these rows with these blooms. The roses are as they are, as they are in that famous formulation, and being as they are, being, in fact, right in front of us, corporeal, ineluctable, as in another famous formulation, being just as they are, the roses being there, we can enjoy them: petals nested i…