gathering medicine
roots and herbs
gifts from Mother Earth
I ask for her blessings
power and healing
everything that is worth
this headiness
I find myself in
ready to believe
that sacredness
does exist
this mindfulness
of medicine and power
where heedfulness
deconstructs Babel's tower
I mindfully talk and pray
with those roots and plants
purity I readily gather
listening for each herb's mystic story
imagining great healing and even magic
resplendence with their sacred herbal glory

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