The Buried Metaphor
"Reciprocity," by Aaron Shurin, from King of Shadows
Oh, I could name each flower I tended in a rapture of taxonomy and parental devotion, even though I grumbled about the unanticipated hours spent watering—the almost umbilical tether of care that shor…
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