the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant
the fronds tend to occupy angles that are sort of Lovecraftian
All along her edges, just where she turned to another state. Tidepools full of slow blinks and bubbles and little waving fronds. The self, but more, like a sponge. But thirsty.
every whiff of damp leaf, every autumn-rusted frond of fern in the St. Petersburg countryside