{"id":961,"date":"2024-05-09T01:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=961"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:00:57","slug":"herbs-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/herbs-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbs of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The book on your shelf called <\/span>Herbs of the Earth <\/span><\/i>implies the existence of herbs of the sky, of the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mars, Jupiter<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you like about plants, to have so many books on them? Do you like that they keep finding new ones?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I like the way they spring up in the rocks and between sidewalk cracks. Language\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

fails in the face of so much enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your books talk about the desert,<\/span><\/p>\n

about sand, harsh and unforgiving,<\/span><\/p>\n

until our knees buckle that the cactus keeps forgiving and forgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you think it proves– on mountainsides, underwater, underground–\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that life is showing off? That it enjoys this? That if there were herbs on Mars,<\/span><\/p>\n

it would be because they wanted to be there?<\/span><\/p>\n

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