Every drought-resistant plant has it's own story
Each has to learn to live with
Less and less water, each would have loved
to laze in long soft rains, in the quiet drip
to laze in long soft rains, in the quiet drip
After the thunderstorm
Each could do without deprivation
But where drought is the epic then there must be some
Who persist, not by species betrayal
But by changing themselves
Minutely, by a constant study
Of the price of continuity
A steady bargain with the way things are.
- Adrienne Rich
Each could do without deprivation
But where drought is the epic then there must be some
Who persist, not by species betrayal
But by changing themselves
Minutely, by a constant study
Of the price of continuity
A steady bargain with the way things are.
- Adrienne Rich