kudzu blossom
About Me
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- Water gathering most days I wait through blue and sun till dusk or even later and the rose has faded to lavender, to gray some days, the sleet has started and the leaves underfoot are slick with ice somehow I'm never sorry and never learn one night I waited till the stars were out dropped the bucket into sound, only felt the weight of it filling and the night full of stars and the river full of stars and the bucket full of stars come morning, the coffee is also full of stars
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I just want to say that kudzu is unfairly maligned. It doesn't actually kill the vegetation on which it climbs and it doesn't cause any more erosion than the trees. In fact, to the extent that the shade of trees keeps other plants from growing and securing the ground with their roots, trees actually promote erosion.
I think the reason people don't like kudzu is the same reason they don't like purple loose-strife. The plants die off in winter and their detritus is unsightly. Somehow, people don't like dead vines hanging in trees. But then, these same people hate spanish moss because it's grey color makes it look dead to them.
kudzu looked like a linesman's worst nightmare to me where it had climbed up on the poles and wires
and trekking the back woods looked like it might be good training for a trans-amazonian journey
purple loose-strife on steroids
Phil
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