Poetry

‘Nasturtium’ by Jenny Chen

You sprungamong thirty beakers by the window of a high school classroom,water in glass, blanketed by oil,anchoring leaves of a plantmisidentified as mallow.Sturdy and green, with eight radial veins like the fingers of a supplicant hand,you led us to pluck you from the parking lot’s edge,where the flowers blared like trumpets,in petals of five,in hues …

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