Chuiso Morbo
what poisons the body
is the remedy
and also the cure
Holly
we’ve been filthy
he’s always demanding you
Water violet
using a bone tongue
by the double tongue & double thyme
Black cohosh
your tongue clots at night
married & under quarantine
Mustard
you’re the blueprint again
you’re the lips again
Jasmine
wool-linen-flax remedies
the heat is in the body
Gorse
large of thought sages thither the sick. thither the wounded
Hornbeam
the wash houses weep
sanatoriums weep
Vervain
how does the body absorb
how does the body scat disease out
Passion flower
linen conducts heat in the body what outpours
May apple
notice how blossom misbehaves
longing to become itself
Wild oat
what falls through
after exertion
Blue lobeila
joint-evil & yaws yaws
exfoliant by. sea salt
Feverflew
& skin begins to bunch up
deep furrows & between
English marigold
the swelling, so that the face
& the larynx also
Ladies Mantle
& voice, hoarse and grating
come with sympathies
Elder
take two clean birds & some cedar wood
scarlet yarn & hyssop
Star of Bethlehem
one bird to be killed
over fresh water into a clay pot
Sweet chestnut
dip the living bird, cedar wood
scarlet yarn & hyssop
into the blood of the dead bird
Evening Primrose
release the bird
in the open fields outside the town
pray for the mildew in the house
Clematis
temper of medicine temper of penance
the fog enters
the kind of fog that calls into question
Scleranthus
a blood fluke in the psyche
losing the myth of home & whole
Red chestnut
what is disease if it is unclaimed
what is love if not the borders we arrive from
Beech
we met in the outhouse
loved each other like blood flukes
Rock water
in plant reproduction morphology
unisexual is imperfect or incomplete
Wild rose
contagion is inscribed into disease
the heat comes, some oedema follows
Cherry plum
the blood fluke is the chance
to be counted & fixed
Mimulus
forming relationships with other autotoxics
the autotoxics talk enviro-aesthetics
Cerato
we must unplug ourselves
unconscious at delta
we met in a sick building
Chestnut bud
the cat performs a protective function
soaks up the gamma, theta, delta
Agrimony
we met in an underground cavern
a Spinozian view
of being a maternal substance
Gentian
the war is not in the air
it is deep in our bone marrow
Walnut
weeping & welting each other
it was a turning on myself
an unworlding of heartache
Willow
end of gestural life
& you can’t get cool
hold tight for the borderlands
Aspen
for plurality of body parts
love perversion love thwack
this outsider stance
Crab apple
the common task of waltzing t-cells
a little torn up & wild out
the past with its epistolary tone
Larch
hush hush but what a love swarm
end of world byproduct
we’ve come a long way
Chicory
skinless with grief
non, je ne regrette rien