Quatrains for Potted Plants

Our prayer plant
returned from the dead
several times.
She prays every night.

my stripling avocado trees
grown from the pits
tipped over in transit
and never recovered

the hanging, trailing
house plants of our youth —
no longer a fad,
where do they grow?

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