Barbara Duffey

The Rewilder

The Rewilder

The streets cut so narrow you can hear neighbors have sex, then,after a pause, pour cereal into bowls. Outside town,at the bend in the road, a wild fig grows over afence—stone, whitewashed— that keeps it from a farmer’s planned fig grove.Fruits bulb out— fertility icons— at their gecko-green, purpling bottoms. Broad, fat leaves spread out …

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