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As Plants Jennifer Perrine (bio) Every girl is dirt-birthed. Every girl growsup a flower, a petal-cast momentof blossom, an ecdysiast who showsthere’s nothing up her sleeves. Post your commentbelow her first wilt-pout. Let us increaseher followers. Let us upload her, skyfull of cloud. Let us measure the decreasein her thighs, her waist, her last memoryof choice. Every girl knows it’s best to stayhalf-hidden. She knows a clear line of sightrisks exposure, return fire, the decayof her best bloom. Salve her with vats of nightcream. Bandage her with concealer. Say youlove how she looks in that wound, is it new? [End Page 117] Jennifer Perrine Jennifer Perrine’s collection, No Confession, No Mass, won the 2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, the 2015 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry, and the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Copyright © 2018 Pleiades and Pleiades Press
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