JAN 9, poetic non-sequitur: "The Secret Life of Plants"

a) Reprise of material posted on January 9 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, Loutrel Briggs, designer (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, national winner (wordplay) 
2022: poetry of healthcare, Valgus and Carbuncle, (print-published poem)
2023: mythed opportunities, Cronus (illustrated poem)

2024: birdfeeders: tufted titmouse (action photos)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 9, 2025)

Authors' Note: "The Secret Life of Plants", 1973, was a controversial piece of 'non-fiction' that recounted controversial experiments that pointed to plant sentience and emotion. The book became the basis for a documentary film, and even inspired a music album by a well-known popular singer/musician in 1979. Considerable criticism arose from its then-trendy pseudoscientific claims based on non-replicable reports. Subsequently, aspects of how plants, including vegetable species, sense and react to environmental changes, have undergone more intense and sober investigation by academic botanists.

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