Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra

Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra

Blood Root, the title of Jessica Hiemstra’s powerful new poetry collection, evokes the bloodroot flower, the medicinal but toxic plant indigenous across the forests of North America. There are spiritual practitioners who believe the flower essence of the bloodroot plant can open us to a deep willingness to work with and heal the karmic relationships within our family and soul group (for as Hiemstra writes, “what we don’t return to the earth / ou…