Removal or collection not permitted:
Yarrow
Baneberry
Pathfinder
Maidenhair fern
Kneeling angelica
Arnica: mountain
not meadow
Lady fern
A rupture prompted
by a violence of nature,
then: low level
hum of lack,
keening quietly.
No being,
not now,
nor before,
only unfolding.
A horizon,
then, and there:
an infinite future,
and yet—
no plurality,
no multiplicity.
Fumbling around
a new world,
mouth around
language with
inadequate potential.
Edit, find, and replace.
Null edition,
zero of zero.
/
Common harebell
Varied-leaf colommia
Alpine willow-herb
Creeping Charlie
White-flowered hawkweed
Klamath weed
Duckweed
You’re hungry now.
I’ve got a hungry eye, a hungry heart.
They are hungry, they are hungry for you.
Hungry, Hungry again.
I’ve been hungry way down in my heart.
We’re hungry for a life we can’t afford.
It probably could happen to anyone.
Hungry for a life without cruelty.
Who will care if I’m hungry?
We’re all hungry.
A rare encounter,
I’m told
Hungry hippo, hungry lucy,
hungry baby, hungry face.
Funny face I love you.
Hungry for love, for more,
for heaven, for you.
Like a wolf,
etc. etc.
/
Tiger lily
Twinflower
Few-flowered lomatium
Twinberry
Leafy dwarf knotweed
Licorice fern
Bracken
A thing about a lion,
forced intimacy, and prey.
Imminent dread,
impending doom.
One paw in the belly-wound—
it probably could happen to anyone.
/
White-veined wintergreen
Dandelion
Foamflower
White trillium
Common cattail
Oval-leaf blueberry
Huckleberry: oval-leaved, too,
and mountain
and red
Make legible:
a warning in writing above
not before later than
next in time or
place the indefinite
now.
A point on a plane,
haunted by a particularity
of relation.
There do n’t appear
to be anything here.