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Here’s a little bit of what I wrote today:
Prompt: A houseplant is dying. Tell it why it needs to live.
Ficus, my ficus, stunted tree with your braided bulbous roots. No, that’s not right. Boston fern? English Ivy? Rubber plant with hand-painted leaves? Drooping peace lily, your tiny white face nodding, nodding, in the draft from the air conditioner? No. Nor a persevering heartleaf philodendron, creeping up my bookshelves, even into the dark corners of the room. Kentia palm? Benjamin fig? Grocery store bamboo rooted in pebbles? Wise-sad blossomless orchid, with its searching silvered air roots? No. Frost-stubbed succulent, drained yellow, visited in the night by vampire bunnies? Alas, you are none of these. But I promise you, little potted sister, if you rise up, if you make it through the week, I will search you out. I promise, I will learn your name.