“This is not about the unwanted child, Or what a therapist called embodiment of the violation, But about the strength and will to cradle the plants Outside—the pruning, the watering, the sheltering” A poem by José Antonio Rodríguez.
And of how unfathomably hard it must have beenFor shovelling and irrigating and shovelling again.Mom says his boss was a jerk, nothing ever good enough.
Who’d never listened to her pleas because the priest saidWho never saw her afternoons slumped by the kitchen table,This is not about the unwanted child,But about the strength and will to cradle the plantsIn found tarps and twine against the coldest nights.For the bougainvillea, the hibiscus, the blue morning.
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