Catherine reads GATHERING ACORNS, HOARDING WORDS from her poetry collection Geosmin. In his piece, “The Word Hoard” British writer-naturalist Robert MacFarlane noted the proposed removal of words about the natural world in the children’s Oxford Dictionary—and this led to an outcry across the English-speaking world. GATHERING ACORNS, HOARDING WORDS asks if children do not know the words describing land, how will they know land?