Story “Rose Jam” published by Marias at Sampaguitas on 05/02/2021.
Add one tablespoon of baking soda and one tablespoon of dish soap to one gallon of water, and spray it on your knockout rose foliage. This natural remedy keeps pests and diseases away. While your toddler naps inside, you sit in the porch inhaling the scent of your knockouts and watching bees suck at the flowers’ yellow cores. You remember your baby’s little lips around your breast, the tug of his gums on your nipple, the bites when he sprouted teeth.
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everything slant and divine:
The smell of roses and rose jam the petal between teeth– and the bee sucking at teh flower’s yellow core.