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“Florilegium” is an explorative writing column by nature enthusiast, poet, adjunct instructor, and Palette’s associate editor Sara Dudo. “Florilegium” refers to a collection of literary excerpts or fragments, evolving from the early 17th-century Latin (flos, flor– “flower” + legere “gather”) literally translating to “bouquet.” While in medieval Lat...

Lover, love the peat-parts of me,
the curl from neck to shoulder, the lichened
small of my back, my dimpled thighs.
The too-soft plum-skin parts of me,
plums drawn to the earth by their ripening,
overripe plums sugaring the worms.
Moss-tender, moss-retentive, the parts
cruelly preserved. Winter-humid parts,
nosy parts, love the murk of my eyes,...

after Safia Elhillo’s Reconstituted Histories

From God, they told me – four years
of pleading. Tio Miguel’s herbal remedies.

Tio Eugenio’s tragitos de mamajuana. The entirety
of Tia Victoria’s cloister praying to my mother’s viscera.

And now Endeavor’s reentry trails are the path
to my descent. Mae Jemison, channeling Uhura,

“H...