Grocery Store Flowers: Poetry for sad, stupid sluts.
Grocery Store Flowers is a collection of poems by author Jordan Rollins Duncan in a unique, unorthodox style. Grocery Store Flowers is divided into four chapters that cover a span of twenty-five years.
A flower growing behind a trailer park's dumpster, Trailer Trash Child, is a troubling look at a youngster developing in a near-rural community and is a harsh look at surviving pubescence in the American Southeast's rape culture. Beneath the Fig and Sweet Gum offers a glimpse at a young lady growing into herself, struggling with her sexual identity and eating disorders, and ultimately falling in love. Wilt Water is a portrait of domestic unhappiness from the perspective of a worn-out wife and mother who has become disillusioned with romance. Rose Garden by the Sea is the redemption era, the Revenge Dress, and the period of self-reflection before starting something new.Grocery Store Flowers is for the bimbo, the housewife, the lovergirl, the mother of daughters, bisexual demons, non-binary angels, the cashier at the gas station, people who used to have a pink Razr phone, and most of all, the sad, stupid slut of every gender.Grocery Store Flowers is for those who grew up in the Southeastern United States questioning god, their sexuality, and their gender. Those who might have been in a cult before having a slut-phase, moving away for good, and turning into someone no one would recognize at a high school reunion.Grocery Store Flowers is for survivors of abuse, suicide, eating disorders, and men punching above their weight limit.
