My beautiful dead plants

is your windowsill full of sad houseplants too?

This year, like every year, my Christmas poinsettia is still hovering around my apartment slowly losing leaves. There are only two green ones left. The pinks on top of bare stems make the plant look like a forest canopy if I’m describing it generously. But really, there’s nothing lyrical about it. It’s a plant that’s dying.

The poinsettia we know from th…