In The Long Grass
Tall grass is a reminder that the Christian bible does not account for the world as we actually perceive it. Its botanical blasphemy is suppressed with the scythe, but remains at the root.
The American landscape, in true Christian fashion, is kept closely cropped, uniform in appearance. Grass grown long and brown is considered unruly, as if it is the job of every plant to follow human rules. There’s a religious belief in a hierarchy of authority, with the Christian god at the top, setting the standard for all other beings, and grass kept short in order to serve humanity as something to be stepped upon, always fresh and pliant to our desires as the feudal underlords of divinity on Earth.
Tall grass that rises above our ankles and loses its springtime green after setting seed shows the lie of a stable, solid planet under the dominion of a heavenly god. The wind, commanded by no one, moves it en masse in beautiful natural waves, golden in the low light of late autumn.
Tall grass is a reminder that the Christian bible does not account for the world as we actually perceive it. Its botanical blasphemy is suppressed with the scythe, but remains at the root.
