“Whether your stitching is as elaborate as the Bayeux tapestry or as simple as an Amish patchwork quilt, the threads of your life are what you will weave into the fabric of your story.”
~ Patty Dann in The Butterfly Hours
Mostly Wordless Wednesday
Found Poetry: An Herbal Remedy Imagined
After watching the state of things.
Echinacea Purpurea *
Purple Rudbeckia.
Prefers rocky, disturbed soils–
(souls).
Used at length by Native Americans
for more ailments
than any other plant:
herbal smudge,
smoke,
the leaf or root.
Supporting,
depurative–
purifying for situations,
swellings.
Or distemper**–
an infectious disease,
a deranged condition
of mind
or body,
a feverish disturbance
of political nature
(though far from natural).
The purple coneflower,
an herbal remedy imagined.
Fresh,
dried,
tinctured,
encapsulated.
All the rage
closed down.
* Echinacea Purpurea on Mountain Rose Herbs
** Distemper, the definition.