2. David Coyote’s Den Presents Photo Gallery 11 Slides advance automatically, or by clicking anywhere on the screen.

3. Bamboo All images © 2005 David Coyote

4. Bamboo Knows When wind blows bamboo whispers, black against green, leaves wet from fog. Bamboo knows secrets, doesn’t break when storms come upon old stands. Tall graceful strength in slender memories of segmented forms. Is suppleness the secret to survival? david coyote

5. 1 Poor coyote. He has no pandas living there. 2 At coyote’s house they are always ready to go fishing. Lisa J. Cihlar

6. Oh Great Bamboo Great Bamboo I love you, I do! Dawn Irene Dare like crane's legs the black and the gold boodle swats the little poodle who made the mess beneath the dress of his master, mister coyote all behind the curtain of sharp dense leaves andrew morgan

7. The old world grows in the new. Ancient fast plant in young fast country. It doesn't know. It doesn't care. Growth is all. christopher morrow

8. Black and gold Young and old Bamboo stands Urban lands David's cove Shadow grove Years alive Wildly thrive Bamboo shoots Make good lutes Well my friend Time to end Ginger Hamilton Caudill

9. Secret Black bamboo, golden bamboo, makes a screen for me and you to do exactly what we do; incognito. GC SMITH

10. 1 Black bamboo, dew wet Golden goddess in lush green Rain kaleidoscope 2 Better watch out for the old bamboo... 3 bamboo makes good flutes, too. Marcel DeClercq

11. This is all I know about bamboo. My wife says Bambi, baby boom, bamboo, booooo. Gary Hill Among the stands of bamboo at the Bamboo Club in 1963 in East St. Louis Ray Charles brought the house down It brings a tear into my eye.

12. There are leaves among the cultured bamboo, That he hangs and dries. They are nurtured in his ancient stand, Before he picks them clean. The finest is always next years crop, He anticipates their changing type, When finally prepared and crumbled thin, Those leaves are in his pipe. Mike Ripley

13. 1Bamboozled I’ve never eaten bamboo shoots They tell me they’re delicious Panda’s chew up tons of them But I’ve heard they’re not nutritious No wonder then, that Panda’s have To eat so many of them. If I was a Panda I would tell My handler where to shove them 2 It's a... bamboozlement. pieter mayer

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