Lauren K. Carlson lives in northern lower Michigan and is the author of a chapbook, Animals I Have Killed. A recent graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, her writing appears in Pleiades: Literature in Context, Amethyst Review, Fatal Flaw, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. For more see www.laurenkcarlson.com.
Looking at the two stems housed in a water glass on my kitchen table, it strikes me that “in the ground” means opposite things for flowers and people. As long…