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An image of bougainvillea held above a busy street at night.

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What is an offshoot in the sense of history?
Tires slashed at the police station
the one with bougainvillea___any time
How do you say bougainvillea?
The umbrella doubles as a flashlight, a salve
from what’s found in plants by the crick will do
the trick. I was thinking of a flower poised,
red-stemmed. What I know of grafting is skin
& cells & life at its smallest roots. What I know
of smallness comes from my animal. Graft or
Grift or____________ ____/ ______thief or
Thrift or________/ _______lift or
Left or_________/ _______felt or
Spelt or________/ _______.sap & or
poison. Could you zero in?
When did the soil last see
the light? Growth is susceptibility
to disease: step lively into the street.

 

 

 


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