Essays, or the Opening and Closing of the Okra Flowers During the Eclipse The work of German photographer Karl Blossfeldt and his relationship to plants is reimagined in this poem by 2019 Poems in Translation Contest winner Alba Cid from her collection Atlas . we ripple Edgar Allan Poe 1. A catalog for Karl Blossfeldt. 2. A creation that can only be seen head-on, one which celebrates the detail: fingers plucking petals and sepals to discover 3. the corolla (chrysanthemum) 4. the structures (sage) 5. a nearly nonexistent world: interior, spores, silences (nothing better than a panicle to catch a glimpse of silence). 6. With some enlargements, organic matter can become metal, sculpture, a richly split nutcracker, a Tsarine delirium after so many Tsars.