Vintage Christmas Greeting Card with Red Poinsettia in Blue Vase

The poinsettia is so dramatically elongated relative to the dark blue vase that it appears to be desperately fleeing its imprisonment, accompanied by what can only be described as the world's most passive-aggressive spray of tiny white berries. The card's handwritten-style script informs us that 'joy, and love, and cheer' should be 'thine to-day' — because if you wanted to convey heartfelt Christmas warmth, obviously the grammatical intimacy of 'thine' is the move, a word exclusively used by people who peaked in the Edwardian era. The whole composition reads like a botanist's fever dream: one structurally improbable flower, one aggressively elegant vase, and a poem that rhymes 'cheer' with 'year' as if the writer ran out of options and simply stopped caring.