By Rhianna Searle
mothers have always been gardeners.
Did you know that tomatoes, which love heat,
can’t ripen when it’s too hot?
Did you know cucumbers
can’t bear fruit without bees?
Did you know that individualism
is a fungus?
Did you know we are a
monocropping country?
Did you know women are degraded,
soil.
Did you know children
are planted in rows?
Did you know we
irrigate, irrigate
and women are flooding?
But did you know
women could be carbon sinks?
Did you know healthy soil
is the fabric of our nation?
Did you know:
women can stitch us together
women are the roots of our society
women are the mangroves that protect us from the storm
women are fertilizer to the economy
women can craft a regenerative world?
Did you know parenting
could be like planting a
three sisters garden:
corn (government)
squash (mother)
beans (child)
together,
in turn,
tend
soil.
But did you know we
monocrop motherhood?
So given the circumstances,
did you know
choices are trellises?
Did you know tendrils of potential
climb choices to freedom
where the sun shines?
women plant personhood
women water our rights.
women have always been gardeners.
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