fractured appalachia

ALL BECAUSE THESE PLANTS CANNOT BE HELD UNDER PATENT

A question of agency. A position of power. A deep orientation away from Earth, away from ground, away from right relationship with space, right relationship with time.

Apothecaries are memorialized, today, more museum than active space. Relics of a time before industrialization, though surely even during the "factory years" a communal reverence for, or, at least, dependence on, plants stood more overtly.

Just as the denuding of forest and prairie escalated in scale and degree, so too has our collective distancing from tree and flower and root. Our collective distancing from root.

Distancing from root.

The medicine of plants is immediately on offer in metaphor. Apothecary of spirit remains available despite the large absence of apothecary on the frontlines.

On the frontlines.