These poems were made in collaboration with trees, using a process of extended organic cognitive intelligence: Original poems about queer plant consciousness were projected onto tree canopies (both bare and in full-foliage). Then, these new revisions made by the shape of the tree interacting with the text were transcribed, then projected once again onto the tree.

Elle Longpre is a musician and the author of How to Keep You Alive (CCM Press 2017), as well as five chapbooks, most recently from Belladonna* Collaborative. Since earning their PhD in poetry, they can be found in the woods.