Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut Plants and connect meaningfully in a

and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world

When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land

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Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut Plants and connect meaningfully in aBy Vickie Vrtiz Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vrtiz's poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don't just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vrtiz's poems ask us to see Los Angeles and all cities like it as they have