16 Indoor Plants and Two Wild Pots

I kept hot chili powder out for the squirrels

who ate my sunflower seeds

a quiet muttering before I rubber-banded the top of jade green pots

to stay immoveable.

I knifed in air holes of tv dinner trays

It felt like a fort.

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And it poured heavy

giant jackfruits dropping down onto my Adélie deck

pelts of fury

And the sun scorched the Saran wrap in the morning

until it started perspiring- the moist of a thick greased upper lip

a romance in curling moustaches-

bootleg Dali

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And the seeds

my marigold

sprouts

They choked in the heat.

Thick shoots withered into the soil leaving nothing behind

a caterpillar making them into meals

slashed

because you deemed it impossible

me

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Now I’m without marigolds

the squirrels’ dug into the uncovered pots

leaving gouges

tracking dirt all over my southeast

but

I had grabbed a handful of that soil before the marigolds

transplanted them into my bird of paradise

invisible wildflowers grew

They’re weeds

Yes.

there are 3.

to each their own

I was only ever good at sheltering them from the wild.