Made in Her Image
Watchers undress budding petals—drop
rot and ruins, recycling her blight
into tempting trees—Edenic crops
lana Elizabeth Phipps grew up in a small rural community in central Jamaica. Her poetry draws upon her experiences as an Afro-Jamaican woman collaborating with and belonging to nature. Alongside her creative work, she is pursuing a BA in the History of Science and Medicine program at Yale University, where her research uses the imaginative praxis of critical fabulation.