Hilda Downer

The Medicine Woods

Arts & Literature

“In a world altered forever by climate change, The Medicine Woods leads us to remember and call upon the healing properties of flora and fauna—the woodlands—because ‘the earth is borrowed from our children’ and the ‘days of swinging grapevines . . . are slipping into oblivion.’ These poems are necessary when even the memory of abundant medicinal plants and calling their names can steady, guide, and heal our souls.”