"the inertia of blind wanderings"

"Think of our own life-lines or life-times as being such a vegetable thing, abundantly flowering and putting forth seedpods of what we are, so that moments ripen and fall to earth, bursting with new plantings of ourselves in us -- and these, subject to mutations, radioactive alterations and misunderstandings of our original form, puns, cross-messages of the first code we come from -- and so we go to birth, to the leaping aliveness of a new beginning from the inertia of the blind wanderings of the plant we are in our going to seed."

-- Robert Duncan, "The Pod of Adam"