Planting Tulips
Victoria Chang
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They bend into each other’s stamens, tendrils leaning, sucking and bulging,calyx swaying in blade, lamina, burning under a trusted sun.
Cottage Tulips, Single Earlies, Double Earlies, Darwins, Parrots.
Plant them in the fall to see their torsos rise in spring.

