Tumbleweed in the Sky

Tumbleweed in the Sky

Artwork by Dr Abe V Rotor

 Tumbleweed and wooden shards, AV Rotor 2025 

Orphaned from the hills and field, 

the woods once your home gone;  

except your seeds with spiny shield

to grow and carry on in the sun.  

Closeup of a local tumbleweed

I found you on a wasteland tumbling,

     alone with the wind whistling;

come with me to my garden and art,

     and here we shall never part. 

*A tumbleweed is the dead, dried, above-ground part of a plant that detaches from its roots and rolls in the wind, dispersing seeds. This rolling plant is a diaspore, a mechanism for seed dispersal that helps the plant colonize new areas. Halaman na gumugulong sa hangin," literally means "plant that rolls in the wind"

AUTHOR'S NOTE: A good subject of research, undergraduate and graduate, on the botany of this grass, Family Poaceae, growing on marginal lands and shorelines, its ecological potential in wasteland reclamation.