Representations of the violent forfeiture of heritage olive groves have become ubiquitous to the Palestinian literary landscape. But Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye is not only interested in the loss of cultivated gardens and agricultural plots; the notion of “wild” and the necessary disruption of cultivation is just as important to diasporic memory in her 2002 collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle. In the poem “They Dropped It,” children irreverently trod through a carefully landscaped zone “beyond the fence” of presumably their school. They carry untitled plants—“yellow bells in their hands” and one boy dragging a “purple vine”—as ritual accessories during their romp over the fence. The speaker relays “They wouldn’t be sorry / pockets reeking jasmine, mud staining shoes… / Who deserved flowers more? / Rich people who never came outside / or children stuck all day in school?”, and a hardworking gardener curses them, while “straightening branches”. An unnamed person picks up a pink blossom left over from their great escape, wraps it in paper and takes it “home across the sea.” The final couplet follows the flower’s remains: “The dried petals lay on a table for months / whispering, Where are we?”. The poem allies childhood with wildness in the familiar rhetorical convention, and yet is quirky in its irreverence toward gardening as landscaping. The exilic shift is also surprising. If these children are Palestinian, what does it mean for them to rupture a cultivated landscape outside the prison-like enclosure of their classroom, and cause the garden’s remains to be taken into exile across the sea? In this paper, I advance current attempts to merge ecocriticism and postcolonial studies by focusing on the ways in which Palestinian poetic ecologies engage cosmopolitanism, deterritoriality, and nonhuman agency through figurations of “wilderness”. More specifically, I show that for Anglophone Palestinian diaspora poets, the conditions of diasporic mobility and transnationalism are intertwined with the condition of ecological degradation because human exile is symbiotic with plant and animal exiles.