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Sylvia Legris

Nature's (Human) Nature

May/June 2018

Morbid Florilegia (Part II)

By Sylvia Legris

1st: Confirm the morphological integrity of the garden body. Safe-vouched, the plant-pressed organ herbarium unshelved (forget the blood and hairy root saw, the skin under its nails garden claw—weaselly with […]

Nature's (Human) Nature

May/June 2018

Morbid Florilegia (Part I)

By Sylvia Legris

flourish, the fanfare, the febrifugic feverfew. An oleaginous emplastrum—with horehound leaf, olive over olive, the oily parts, the dry. An antidote for the unblessed, the blistering, the dourly flowering flora, […]