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Hand in handWalking across the hot asphaltTo haphazard shopping carts,Through motion sensor doorsInto the chilly blastHeading straight for the produceSplitting off to grabPeppers and apples and tomatoesAnd cabbage and oranges,Limes and lemons, meetingIn front of the vegan selectionLeaning into you in the bulk aislePicking out pasta,Lentils and legumesSpilling spices into sacksOn to the bakeryTo see what is on saleSeveral sorts of sourdough to selectComparing cans’ contentsChoosing too many flavours of juiceAnd many bottles of mineral waterPicking up food for our fur familyAgreeing in the frozen aisleThis cut of French fryThat flavour of ice creamChecking out in a rushBagging groceries togetherAnd…
Chevrefoil(after Marie de France) The honeysuckle and the hazellive in symbiosis.When hewn apartthe axe, the scissors,the wielder kills both. The lichen is a dual creature,fungi and algae,that cannot be separated,would never exist without both. The aspen forestspeaks to itself,each other,to keep each tree alive;when burned the roots surviveand grow the forest anew— We are all three of theseinterdependent beings.In severance, I starve.