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(For my orchid babies)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve never known the answer to childhood When the question came around to me, I mumbled, \u201cYou can\u2019t be made in another\u2019s afterimage, love, Cover image by Crystal Mirallegro<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve never known the answer to childhood questions\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":28439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4812,3401],"tags":[4854,2488,4859,4858,4860,4861,4855,4856,25,4853,4857,2310],"class_list":{"0":"post-28438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-climate-change-and-sexuality","9":"category-fiction-poetry","10":"tag-case-and-environment","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-david-attenborough","13":"tag-ecofeminism","14":"tag-icarian","15":"tag-orchids","16":"tag-poetry-on-identity","17":"tag-rainforest","18":"tag-sexualities","19":"tag-sexuality-and-climate-justice","20":"tag-sexuality-and-environtment","21":"tag-sisa-spaces"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28441,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions\/28441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
questions like what do you want to become
when you grow up? Not in a way others just knew
they wanted to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen \u2013
noble professions, set in the ways of their inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA rainforest tree? Or, or, David Attenborough\u2019s voice.
No, Crocodie Hunter!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you have to find your own calling.\u201d Titanium plate bolted
on his femur, dear teacher recalls days
of his athletic potential when he feels no one
is watching. I am partial to morbidly delicate nature
and delicately morbid too. No wonder my first instinct
to become a rainforest tree, that leisurely Icarian
thing on which orchids grow safe. I am that tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n