Achillea millefolium
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Perhaps yarrow knows how to bend time or
slow it to photon-pace
parallel to when/where forests burn
not in violent crisis
but at jack pine speed
cones opening
this is an oversimplification
add spruce budworm and warming climate
that bear in jeans and bigotry
add these impatient, prophecy-dipped minds
hooked by the heel into bitter, glorious ends bent
on extracting
on surviving
on casting yarrow stalks or running code
pressing everything for more
running with spears at other spears
locked in opposition
reaching for yarrow to staunch the bleeding
perhaps seven generations ago
at sunbeam pace
the entire forest was a hearth
whole forests were family
every forest is a home
this is an oversimplification