[1] Nature Poem was written in first-person narration following the character Teebs, a queer “NDN” (American Indian).

[8] Often humorously, Teebs discusses dating, sex, and living as a queer person in the city.

[14] The New York Times Book Review wrote that Nature Poem was covertly political and engaging.

[15] New York Journal of Books writes that this modern poem explores the tendency of American consumer society to view nature as a "cosmetic accessory," while also exploring the contradiction between Teebs' condemnation of "empty materialism" and his simultaneous "love letter" to it.

"[1] The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote of Nature Poem: "Pico’s work is, in parts, a rose at the altar of the international decolonial movement, imagining what our LGBT and the broader community of marginalized Americans look like if we were to shake ourselves of our bourgeois comforts of the Obama Era and truly resist (purposefully un-hashtagged).