Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 10:55am

Did you know on the other side of the street across,

That the kudzu ate red bank, that part people call god’s land?

Did you know kudzu came from near where we come from?

So it will survive alright

As we have.

And maybe

The kudzu will eat up the entire South

With its healing touch as the miracle vine

And maybe then,

Your red Iris won’t cry no more,

We will weave us garments of thousands of hearted-leaves with Dickey’s kudzu* flowers on our heads.

And surely then,

We won’t cry no more.