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even in the middle of a bustling city

As she meditates on and renames her favourite species of moss

an aerated bubble

while others use the latest modern technologies

her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her

Twelve Words for Moss Uta Neumann even in the middle ofGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains its own irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth Jane Burnett celebrates the unsung hero of the plant world with a unique blend of poetry, nature writing and memoir. Making her way through wetlands from Somerset to County Tyrone, Burnett discovers the hidden vibrancy and luminous beauty of these