How Killer Blue Irises Spread—Misheard health report on NPR The quiet ones, the flowers Iris getagunandkillus, shoots and rhizomes reaching Mickey Blue Iris, the tubers that pretend to be dormant They know hell, their blue flames fooling van Gogh, the knife he spent painting in a mad heat. They swell before the cut flattened. Daylilies found like lean bodies across the path. the gladioli, into the hothouse where the corpse flower blooms Kelli Russell Agodon was born and raised in Seattle and educated at the University of Washington and at Pacific Lutheran University, where she will graduate this year with her M.F.A. in creative writing.
What do you think? Discuss this article in Post & Riposte. |
Search
|
