Sifting through the Fragments
With my knife I slash open the plastic bag, and the smell of the mulch hits me: damp cedar, fungal spores, moss, creosote. Something flashes, and for a moment I’m not planting boxwood with my family. I’m in Michigan, working as a landscaper. It’s never quite warm enough. I smell the green exhalations of reedy…

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