Kalanchoe Pinnata

By Jeanne Ormond / December 1, 1976

This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 4 No. 4, "Generations: Women in the South." Find more from that issue here.

I want to grow

Like a mother of thousands.

I want to sprout

Babies all along the rims

Of my top leaves.

I want the babies to drop,

One at a time, or

All at once —

I don’t care —

As long as they drop,

Sprout, and grow into thousands

Of mothers of thousands.

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