Health Remedies

Song to the Tabebuia Caraiba tree, whose bark gives us tea and quinine for treating malaria, and whose crinkly yellow flowers make me happy: When Mrs. Dalloway said/ She would buy the flowers herself,/ Even in her wildest dreams, could she/ Have imagined transporting home to her party/ The lavish flourish of abundance/ Sounding from the depths of these trumpets?