Poem based on recent paper on how global wind systems have transported moss along Earth's latitudes!

It's not every day you find an email in your inbox with a poem based on your research!

​I was honoured that my latest paper on the biogeography of Ceratodon purpureus and its spread across the globe inspired Sam Illingworth from thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com to make this great poem :)

A Rolling Wind Gathers the Moss
November 13, 2020 by Sam Illingworth

Spread out like a living
blanket of dewy jade,
the fire moss basks
in its ubiquity.
Verdant carpets that
stretch out
across the forest,
over the pavement,
and up,
up,
on to the rooftops
of our fabricated
treetop homes.

Strips of mottled green
that lie in rootless
ordered bands,
carried across oceans
on unseen hands –
their delicate touch
brushing off
the hidden geographies
of this
turbulent dispersal.

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​Thank you, Sam Illingworth!

The poem will also feature in the next episode of his podcast, to be released on 16/11/2020. 

For more information on the paper:
Biersma, E.M., Convey, P., Wyber, R., Robinson, S.A., Dowton, M., Van De Vijver, B., Linse, K., Griffiths H. & Jackson, J.A. (2020) Latitudinal biogeographic structuring in the globally distributed moss Ceratodon purpureus. Front. Plant Sci. 11:502359.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.502359