Allison Adair

Because My Daughter Says, “It’s Mommy’s Job to Clean the Kitchen”

Because My Daughter Says, “It’s Mommy’s Job to Clean the Kitchen”

You can’t blame the hounded pangolinfor coiling into herself. Stubborn artichoke crossed with a stout shop-vac, the animal seems engineered for battles epic, wretched. Instead, she defaults to pure defense—no teeth, just a spiral of bronze scales, as if roofers shingled a dreamy cat with scallop shells.The pangolin asks only solitary midnight suckling,a topsoil seething …

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