Symbiosis

we are joining forces, forming coalitions

we are remembering through osmosis, a body outlives a broken heart

we are learnt helplessness, nursing our codependency

we are bilateral, we agree to disagree

we are efficiently deficient, disfunction in formlessness

we are the happiness of thieves, getting exactly what we came for

we are hunting and gathering, hearing every sound in the forest

we are nomadic currents, motion in rest

we dislocate easily, a flexible confusion

we are passive aggression, sprawling into your outskirts and festering

we are negotiation skills emerging in climates of desperation

we are nesting dolls, inbuilt guilt in infinite regress

we are both a logical statement and not a logical statement

we are the variety of possible outcomes of degrowth

we are banned from the public library for life

we are earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal, an elemental courage

we are not adverse to making do

we are plants and animals endangered by your lassitude

we are the greater good

we are all for it, some conditions may apply

We Are Lichen is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store

Razielle Aigen

Contributing Author

We Are Lichen by Razielle Aigen is a Blasted Tree original collection of poetry.

ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-87-5

Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer