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The night the plants died,
the night the heat stopped,
the night it fell to 10 below,
at a precise minute, a definite second,
at an unknown time,
an undisclosed hour,
a million plant cells froze,
a million cell walls cracked,
a dozen plants exploded,
a dozen green worlds drowned,
among them snake plants, spiders,
my grandmother's jade,
a small cypress.
In the morning, we stirred,
in winter blanket cocoon,
and woke````````
to smell mass murder and
death for breakfast.
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