Weed Poetry


are you a weed nationalist, a prophet of the weed diaspora?

or do you advocate the assimilation of the weed, like

the jew, into the various plant-nations of the world-garden?

a weed zion? o wandering weed

roots without roots,

a nomad in a ghetto,

yearning to take its rightful place

among the flowers and the cones.

perhaps weeds do need their own republic,

weeds of the world unite, you

have nothing to lose but

your herbicide.

 

     -David Weisberg


I love to be given the chance
To grow hundreds and hundreds of plants;
Though I could not adore 
my Polygonum more,
it is a one-sided romance.
 

     -Amity Wilczek


Pericarp project
pursues plasticity of
parent Polygonums.
 
puritans hunted
hot hydropiper achenes
for taste sensation.
 

     -Christine Miller, Christina Richards, and Julia Tufts
 


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