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Mugwort fibre stitching us together

Yomogi Mugwort Mogusa or Tsukuroigusa stemming from the word to sew, darn, knit, connect meshing bringing two things together, glue, aiding the processing of other things like an enzyme.

How the fibres of one sheep's wool mesh with another, and the plants fibres mesh with our fibres. Where humans and plants overlap.

We are made of mesh, webs of fascia and skin and veins.

The fibre of my being loves the fibre of this plant. 

From the fibre of the plant it can mirror the fibre of my being. 

The yomogi grows in the crack in the pavement, by the river, under the railing, tucking itself in, always within reach. 

I bathe in it and it bathes in me. 

Hannah Swift