Maybe not clenched up, maybe the curtains are just pulled closed, almost completely, for privacy, solitude, protection. Still intriguing to know what's going on behind the "curtains," since the inhabitant can peer out unseen at several places. The calyx leaves, so open and beckoning, suggest a welcome. Maybe one needs a password to enter.
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13-Sep-2011 04:04
Clenched like a coil, about to release; wound up so tightly that latent energy splays its leaves apart