Ethnobiology Poetry Series: Brother Coyote

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

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Only now can I comprehend

that a seed plant is no-thing

but a lacework of relations:

mycorrhizae embroidered onto roots

crocheted into the soil,

pollinators hovering in homage

to a flower

as if stitching

the pollen onto anthers

into the stigma

on the style

or seed dispersal agents

(like you or me)

tricked into being

one more means

by which plants go cruising

- Brother Coyote (Gary P. Nabhan)

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