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Chokeweed
February 7, 2024
I threw eggshells in my garden last night.
T’was a tormented hail of unhatched chicks
strewn aimlessly amidst dirt, leaves, and sticks,
till last, enraged, I hosed down the ugly sight.
Have you heard of a vengeful flower bed?
Like the one I made while lividly knelt
on summer brick and thistle frond till welts
devoured my wistful skin now raw and red.
A piccolo came in the mail for...
you, but I buried it. And shut the door.
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This poem is based on thoughts of revenge and frustration. The title "Chokeweed" is a direct allusion to the suffocating grasp of an invasive plant. If the anger or vengeance could take on an animate form, it would be a thorny, vining plant. The figurative bodies left behind manifest in physical pain.