Listen...

• In our alive hypocotyl, when you are gone.
• We live in your flowerbeds.
• heracleum maximum, thalictrum pubescens, sedum glaucophyllum, heracleum maximum
• We are entwined, but we sustain you.


• You have named us to contain yourselves - spiraea tomentosa, creeping dogwood, moss campion.
• In our green vascular bundle, in our wild vascular bundle.
• tangled roots. seminal roots.
• Ah, we exist on a different timescale and we are alive.


• fireweed, rough oxeye, meadow rue, cushion pink
• Your flag flies the thistle, the lancaster rose, the shamrock, the thistle.