cladonia rangifera Nineteen Years Beyond Chernobyl

A dual organism: low-slung show of “mutual.” Reindeer Moss, a misnomer – a lichen: tangled hollow stalks branching and rebranching. Stock slaughtered for countries, for continents. A young girl picking potatoes brings her parents water. Wind hurling branch, child, sound to the house, then yellow earth after deep rain. Sympathetic, the systems – the ferns, […]