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Dutchman’s Breeches Dicentra cucullaria Papaveraceae

Dicentra cucullaria - Dutchman's breeches

Lotte Grønkjær, Dicentra (2025)

When I was ten

someone told me

“Right now, your uterus

is the size of a small strawberry”.

I thought of red staining the tongue,

seeds scraping the bumps on its underside.

Today the memory came back all wrong

pacing along double-lines staining pink

as fruit on tissue left out too long.

Out of season, yet it is the size

of a strawberry.

I cry the way you cry

when you already know

what you have to do.

I fear this the way one is afraid of certain rooms.

It presses on that voice, that kitchen,

the calm cruelty of information

how easily they told me

what grows where.

I try with all I have not to imagine its roots.

think “this is my body” like a spell that works

if you say it a thousand times.

Somewhere, summer strawberries are being

washed, hulled, sugared, loved.

And people say

how small, how sweet,

This thought came to me at night at it was a disaster. Silly thoughts always win

Under cut is just more silly things and a few doodles.