See approved the lawn so carefully a tuft under hand.

See a cone of ants severed from the field by the heel of a shoe.

See the ruined gut of the earth sprayed full of sickness.

See very tiny blisters of genocide in the formation of a yard.

Circumstances shall be severed and may not [affect] how we view other fields of control.

See a weed torn from root, lost rhizome, left to follow the wind as it learns of the undue burden of
its weight.

See our maintenance of the landscape.

See us scrape away the debris of what has fallen, leaf crunched under rakes, stains shoveled and
sodded.

See how we dig and place, severed from all remaining applications of [vision].

The vision shall be inherited like a cutting.

The vision will bud and tear through futures not yet sown, touchless yet definite, each body a gift
from Miracle-Gro®.

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**Homophonic translation of an excerpt from Texas Senate Bill 8, a piece of anti-abortion legislation commonly known as the Texas Heartbeat Act. Italicized language is taken directly from the bill, with bracketed words slightly edited (“affect” from “affected,” “vision” from “provision”).