Urban Tumbleweed Quotes

“As you have forgotten, so one day
might you remember how to be wild
and bewildered, to be wilder and be wilderness?”
― Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary

“Walking the path, I stop to pick up
bleached bark from a tree, curled into
a scroll of ancient wisdom I am unable to read.

Even in my dreams I’m hiking
these mountain trails expecting to find a rock
that nature has shaped to remind me of a heart.”
― Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary

“We proudly harvest rainwater”—a sign
in a neighbor’s yard. With a deep barrel
I could humbly and thankfully harvest rain.”
― Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary