Mobi Warren

galium aparine

we roasted a hundred

tiny seeds of the plant

with many names:

bedstraw, grip grass

robin-run-the-hedge

bobby buttons

sticky willow

catchweed, cleavers

and brewed a small pot

of earthy tea

that lingers

on the tongue

Mobi Warren is a poet-naturalist and eco-puppeteer in San Antonio, TX; author of chapbook "Thread and Nectar" and YA novel "The Bee Maker"; co-founder of Stone in the Stream/Roca en el Rio, a regional collective of poets and visual artists committed to the environment through contemplative, artistic and activist response; translator from Vietnamese of works by Thich Nhat Hanh including "Old Path White Clouds", and "Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-66."