We discovered we could pretend to order –
the order of a universe shaped by our rules:
what goes up must come down,
the importance of photosynthesis
to the life cycle. Green is an urgency
in life on Earth – to lift our spirits
we began to color everything green
and we talked to our plants.
There were some people who
legally adopted their plants, gave them
names and wrote them into their wills.
This made the newspapers.
We spent a lot of time being very quiet,
listening for what the plants might have to say.