The package from Seed Dream
has no words, no planting advice,
complete silence for having come
from a Laotian mountain top.
Your blood-red loss – homeland
of ancestors.
I plant this seed, you refugees
who walked from far-moon worlds,
for the distance you came
to give us red without words.
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Tricia Knoll is a Vermont poet who for over 60 years has tended a wide variety of gardens. She wrote a textbook long about Asian immigration to the west coast of the US — and interviewed dozens of refugees. Her home and vegetable garden is under the Vermont Air National Guard’s F-35 flight path. She is a Contributing Editor to the journal Verse Virtual.
