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ArtistThe Knitted Fortress of the Undergrowth The world has stretched its limbs, pulling the horizon into a vertical climb of velvet petals and serrated leaves. Here, I am small—a comma in a sentence written by the soil. My sweater, thick with the weight of woven azure and bled through with veins of crimson, feels like a second skin, a knitted fortress against the gargantuan nodding of the poppies. Their heads are heavy, wine-dark and blushing, bowing under the weight of a pale, paper-thin sky. I crouch where the earth smells of damp secrets and ancient rot, my fingers interlaced like a prayer I forgot the words to, the gold on my knuckles catching the fractured light. Beside me, the fly agarics rise like stools for gods, their red caps lacquered and speckled with white constellations. My feet, encased in the grinning pink maws of plush monsters, feel disconnected from the gravity that governs the giants above. Everything is a stroke of thick, unblended paint; the daisies are golden suns that have fallen and forgotten how to burn, and the grass is a thicket of emerald spears. I am hiding in the garden of the oversized, a freckled ghost in stripes, waiting for the wind to decide if I am a flower or a weed.