Conquest by Zoë Brigley

Author:Zoë Brigley [Zoe Brigley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370545
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Farming Florida

The Lunar Sea Motel is not like its description

in the 50s guide book: the room is a cell

for cockroaches and the garden lot is a tarmac plot.

The long peninsula is a shallow shelf, which bears

the concrete sprawl, rimmed by the sea’s two lips.

On a 1953 map of Florida’s high and low lands,

fruit, truck, peanuts and hogs – everything

that sells – is labelled on the limestone earth.

A small-printed footnote tells of a rare flower, fattened

from 500 years’ growth and miles inland from shore.

In the everglade heart – unknown to homestead men –

companioned by bears, panthers and the golden eyes

of alligators, the Giant Orchid colonises

the swamp, deep-rooted in its leeching geography.

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