Author: Anya Trofimova
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natal: relating to the place or time of one’s birth (the Oxford Dictionary)
didn’t you rip down the front-porch-lavender? the roots could not resist your blunted claws. you left the soil all ravaged and ruptured drenched with sweat and your vaguely-oriental musk like the crows gorging in the undivided fields at the far-end of summer and severed cornstalks everywhere. didn’t you stand on the threshold before the vicar…
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Homegrown Daughters
daughters imported from afar and grown in monocultures, like bananas or oranges, start to attract fruit flies in August. real daughters should be grown in a terracotta pot from seed or else they resist root training. my girls are easy-peelers, their pith falls away from the flesh in ribbons. the windowsill overflows with their variegated…