black and white photo of a masked figure decked in fronds of mugwort.

Wedded to the wild, She is Wedded to the wind-torn trees And the lashing rains To the torrid river The howling gusts Wedded, for there is no other way She could live Some loves are not a choice Some loves are an inevitability Some loves hammer at your soul’s door at midnight demanding you to wake Wild’s wife She has married the night sky She has married the wind in the pines The dying embers of an all-night fire The bare feet on mossy earth

The freedom the freedom the freedom Woman of the wind, She has tasted the feeling of the Wild open moor Inside her lungs And There Is No Going Back

Mugwort Root

One of four Herbal Poems of Long Winter Nights by Fanny Mae.

Image from Mugwort/Palyn by Anastasia Rydlevskaya

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We have some copies of Wort Journal issues #2 and #3 to offer for free to radical libraries.

Email us at wortsandwords AT gmail•com
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Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering 2025 (Romania) Se parator Wort Journal s The 2025 Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering was an autonomous educational event that took place in Cluj-Napoc, Romania.

An account of the Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering in Romania earlier this month up on the website.

The gatherings will feature as the Project Focus for Issue 4 of the journal.

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