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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
By Jeremy Cantor The hawkmoth knows that she will have to provide for her offspring somewhere else. She sees that my tomato plants are surrounded by a forest of alyssum whose flowers are already drawing the tiny parasitic wasps whose children would devour hers were she so foolish as to lay her eggs nearby. She doesn’t even have to think it over. But it rained very hard last night and I still believe that as she flies past my garden she takes a bit of comfort at the sight of the rain-crushed alyssum beaten flat against the earth looking like that forest in Siberia after the Tunguska Event REVISITING By Jeremy Cantor this seaside town where we used to bring the children is one huge garden as after a long drink of water on a hot day my eyes feel full tonight when I close my eyes I will see flowers and leaves and surf "How do you feel?" I asked. She said, "Something is breaking like ice in the spring" |
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A FULL SET
By Jeremy Cantor Why thank you yes, they are beautiful aren't they my grandmother brought them over from Warsaw they were made in Czechoslovakia, see here underneath? she left because she had to of course things had just got too ugly there she was so happy when she met my grandfather and so was he, they thought that now they would be happy, now they would always have what they always had been missing of course they stayed together later in spite of it all that's what people did No, those are fruit bowls the others got broken I only have three and I haven't been able to find replacements, not even at those places where the serious collectors go they have the big plates and the saucers and the occasional gravy boat and creamer but never the pieces I'm looking for odd, isn't it no I don't think it's just me not at all it seems like everybody breaks the same pieces  Jeremy Cantor |
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