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Ayla Gard

Ayla Gard is an Australian environmental writer whose poetry and prose has been published in Orion, Scientific American, Barnstorm Journal, Pile Press and elsewhere. She has an MFA in nature writing and an MA in poetry from Western Colorado University and works in climate communications for The Nature Conservancy. She grew up near the Blue Mountains on Darug land, and now lives in Southern California.

Why does my mouth taste like plastic?

Started with the placenta that fed you, then, the bottles you sucked, the tiny spoon, fruit pouch lining, stuffed animal soft fur, the blocks you chewed and barbies whose tangled blonde hair shed as you dreamed up her plastic lives, …

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