Gliding atop the canopy
A sprig of life’s diffusionary gleam
Today you live, tomorrow brings…
A scent of death or life in everything…
The forest holds a sorcery
A cure above the human malady
The smoke and fire is closing in…
The rumble moves the trunk of every tree…
Chickenweed
Goosefoot
Lemongrass
Meadowsweet
Nightshade
Motherwort
Shephards purse...and
Butterfly weed.
Nahuata Indians
And a thousand years of tribal remedies
We civilize and suffocate!
The ground is turning loose of all it’s trees…
And have we mentioned oxygen?
Retarded photosynthesizing greed…
With row on row communities
Again the smoke snakes out the chimneys…
Chickenweed
Goosefoot
Lemongrass
Meadowsweet
Nightshade
Motherwort
Shephards purse...and
Butterfly weed.
Solo…
Say-Oh-Shay-ah mico-de-abray...