A broken tulip by Maaike

A broken tulip by Maaike

How to explode a dream

like a rotten egg.

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Maaike VanderMeer
Nov 07, 2024
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Death – loud, protesting – fills the kitchen like a demand. The smell begs me off food, protests how things ends, beats the walls.

One of the eggs has gone rotten.

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When I was young I would watch the hens rustle behind an avocat rouge tree, hurrying their smooth hopes into dead leaves. It took persistence, scavenging for eggs.

Even in the market …

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