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Orchid Tierney
it’s amazing how the sun is a soft structure a suiter    how the light
returns the next day
           how systems flourish    the end of a world is a continuance of
another
                     how mice digest owls    is a reversal of expectations
      how cells gossip withselves          how microbes tangle tiny dramas
how for the bat a white nose is a mile-a-minute       how a princess tree
is a wind spinner
          a leaf is a limb a bad metaphor            how floranauts demand labour
from horse flies      hummingbirds                    a possum is a friendly
neighbour
           is a kind of bee                a kind bomb           a time bomb         a
realtor
   a mob                 how one colony is much like another
how the wasp trades with the flower       how this meadow is pink or
green
             lichens queue fists of wheat    how repetition is a system
                   how a stem is a neck craning with seasonal indifference
            how the flowerhead is a vagrant      an intruder       a network of dirt
how a system is a verb    a noun    and something gross in between
from the journal HARPY HYBRID REVIEW
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Orchid Tierney on "a field guide to future flora"

"however distributed vegetal cognition is, plants are nonetheless remarkable sensing and sensate beings, who invite speculation as to who we—the weirdos of this world—are if we are not already communal thinkers. so: to look upon a plant with an appreciation that its own mind is radically different is a terse exercise in the acceptance of its unknowability."
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