Walking the roads in our semi-rural neighborhood
coming upon patches of untended forest
where offerings neighbor plants display
welcome animal neighbors such as we
and deer, rabbits, bear, coyotes, squirrels
with gifts of mutual benefit
for us the pleasures of seeing and tasting
for them seed dispersal
I overhear a mindful question:
Who is your neighbor?
Sweet blue elderberries Lewis and Clark found “pale, sky blue”
made whistles from their twigs hollowed;
tiny huckleberries in bush riots of small elliptical leaves
red elderberries good for a tart wine
western serviceberries blue with white sparkling-wine flowers
cherries, crabapples, plums, wild strawberries
Easier to know sometimes than human neighbors
an inter-active knowing of mutual benefit
makes proximals neighbors
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