the most consistent medicine for despair.

A dear friend recently told me that one of the names of the plant above is gill-of-the-garden. when I heard it, I took a big, audible sigh and smiled wide at the presence of poetics in my often clunky, utilitarian home language. Quite possibly, the best place to find such lovely expressions is in the soft, quirky common names of plants.

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