do plants imagine flowers?
Chapbook for the MOTH Festival of Ideas (More than Human Rights, NYU), March 2025
Co-edited with Erin Robinsong
Published in Poetry is the means by which unreality invites reality to switch sides
a flower is an idea
unopposed to matter
an idea that springs forth
collectively like pansies
in Spanish we call them “pensamientos”, meaning thoughts
they spring forth on rooftops on sidewalks
in planters
pansies are telling you
think of the plants
coming up to you
(...)
Translated from Spanish by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib
2026
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