Thursday, December 1, 2022

gardener

She was never much of a gardener, but she sings to trees

Learns their names like prayers, in the fall collects the golden leaves

When the rain is cold and the day is night

A fire at her feet


They found a way to grow

A two-thousand year old seed

This is what hope looks like

Believing in life endlessly believing in life


Everyone told her to look for the land of milk and honey

Honking cars, burning money, casual catastrophes

How good or evil is the praying mantis or the honeybee?

She was never much of a gardener, but she sings to trees


They found a way to grow

A two-thousand year old seed

This is what hope looks like

Believing in life endlessly believing in life


Out her window there’s a maple and I know

Down in Virginia by the road her friend’s river birch grows

In the bed mixed with the reeds

The roots whisper from tree to tree

She may not understand, but she is always listening


They found a way to grow

A two-thousand year old seed

This is what hope looks like

Believing in life endlessly believing in life


They found a way to grow

A two-thousand year old seed

This is what hope looks like

Believing in life endlessly believing in life

Believing in life endlessly believing in life


She was never much of a gardener, but she sings to trees

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