Sunday, November 04, 2018

earth note 629


the contours of the land
might let you think
that it's all endless
another plain
leads to a mountain
there are gold leaves
in the short term
and after that
you open your arms
to the decay
and the ultimate
transformation

the earth will carry on
past the boarded up
and abandoned
where forests have paid in blood
a new circle of stewards
will arise
from the black loam of millennia
nurtured by a mother's hand
and from every river
a revelation

--- e b bortz

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