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And I'll read two other poems.

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This poem is was in poets.org
for Poem of the Day,

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and I asked Jane if
she'd read it with me,

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but there are so many
hard words that we

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decided that it would be a
little better if I stumble

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through it.

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So when mom had to be
moved from our house,

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I thought about her
furniture and all of that,

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but I also thought about
her garden under the ground

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with the mycorrhizae
talking to each other--

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the mycorrhizal net.

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And yesterday in our
ecopoetics class,

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we were talking about
the mycorrhizae.

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Hyphal tubes,
symbionts, exudates,

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glomalin proteins, pre-soil,
prevent the leaking out.

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Fluttered root tips of
padded prickly pear,

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sand under anxious days,
enzymes, gill ghosts,

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patched necromass
under her clothesline,

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keep spirit close.

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Beneath feldspar, redbold mica.

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Nets of roots, fate-kept
not-death fungal sheets,

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steady there, abiotic
mediators, ones toward all.

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Crawling now whirred
opened cells,

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Pleistocene N-rich
molecules where rhizosphere

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stayed still.

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Days of salt, stomata,
pores in leaves.

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Dirt with furry prizes
turned zero clouds

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where chores were done,
to branch near places

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she had moods, mendings.

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Sewed buttons on.

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Ectomycorrhizal
fungi, mend her there.

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Her here.

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Mend moods here.

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Pink and beige, mold moods, stay

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the feet.

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Forgetters, spun
threaders where dots

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and arcs host sugars.

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Ampersands of storage compounds,

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Weaving loves.

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Carbon allocators micro-essays

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of endomycorrhizal dappled
net of never-seen, don't.

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Light carriers, don't forget,

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fungal tracers, hold back below.

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Tubes and branches,
microbe niche of ground,

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don't forget her,
earth that held her up.

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