Author’s Note: Indigenous science writer and wise woman Robin Wall Kimmerer wants to help correct English’s objectification of the natural world. She has been advocating a change to our use of the third person neuter pronoun “it” for things that are very much alive for animists and deep ecologists. Her suggestion substitutes “ki” for “it” – utilizing a suffix from her Potawatomi tradition which means “from the living earth.” As a bridge to that change, I’ve taken to adding the suffix “ki” to “it” in my poetry.