Grasses

368 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE Grasses How solitary the hermaphroditic flower and the maze of rootlets and panicles. Crushed beneath each step, what lovesick god could make the hollow stem cell by cell, fibrous roots ofgrasses? Out ofwhat strategy of sand came the profligate spore, the axis of inflorescence, the hidden greens of Iceland? What lusts mutinous to not desert the desert? Thousand upon thousand: species, tribes and genus. To revert out of dirt the homely strand growing. World below us: to know the useful is not beautiful, and still the sower sows. VALERIE WOHLFELD ...