Planting — Blackbird Archive

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A poem about planting ferns at a mother's house and the quiet ritual of gardening amid illness.

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Laura Kolbe’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review , Devil’s Lake , Shenandoah , and SOFTBLOW . Her reviews and essays have appeared in Bookforum , Idiom , Open Letters Monthly , and the Oxonian Review . She studies medicine at University of Virginia. Photo by Ayten Tartici