Annabelle Bond. “I LOVE YOU SO.” 6x9”
When you need health in the North, buy a plant and a fishbowl. Add the bagged dirt you keep in the laundry room cabinet. Assemble. Mist. Place on your desk (for warmth).
When you realize there is no light where you are (in your room, the curtains drawn), you should move the shrunken, leafless plant into your sister’s room (the sister who has been at school for two years, who you call every week when you remember),
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where the windows face South. You should learn perennials. You should learn that vines turn their shiny leaves towards the sun for survival. You should learn that plants have lived for seven hundred million years and that they have learned things -like how to conserve energy and resources in the Winter, when their roots fasten them to their Southern sisters who tell them that somewhere it is sunny, causing, scientists say, most to survive the burden by believing in Summer.
JULIA SCOTT