Text Message from my Mother after I bought long johns of merino wool, probably factory-farmed /

[found poem]

“you do know
Coast Salish weavers collected wool of
wild goats, never domesticated.

women gathered wool tufts thorn bushes caught
from passing goats who shed annually,
like a gift…
not enslaving then shaving.”

/

L. Acadia is a lit professor at National Taiwan University and member of the Taipei Poetry Collective, with poetry in JMWW, New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, trampset, and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter and Instagram: @acadialogue