one microcosmography

bella bravo

Audio: Bella Bravo reads.

A pepper farmer and I fell in and out of love. It took years. He gave up farming. We moved to a good-sized city, and grew groves of lemon and avocado trees in the cemetery across from our apartment.

This morning, we walked over with the hose to divide the trees between us. Our friends, who were his or mine and had become ours, had warned me the trees would stop bearing fruit if I relocated them. I watered the soil to make it easier to dig. He left, and I wrapped the roots in damp paper bags.

Bella Bravo is a writer living in Bloomington, Indiana.

Originally published June 2020 in poiesis 1.1 by w the trees.