Nerve plants: known to be
temperature sensitive.
Preserve under glass.
Grow in fertile soils
and water regularly.
Fainting may occur.
When in doubt, water
it out. Revival of the
plant is often swift.
Creeping evergreen:
recovery looks easy.
And this is where the
metaphor breaks: the
body breaks, and solutions
are not so simple.
Audrey T. Carroll is the author of the What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024) and Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her writing has appeared in Lost Balloon, CRAFT, JMWW, Bending Genres, and others. She is a bi/queer/genderqueer and disabled/chronically ill writer. She serves as a Diversity & Inclusion Editor for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, and as a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine. She can be found at http://AudreyTCarrollWrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter/Instagram.
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