Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle

Author:Margarita Engle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

DEFEATED

Yes, I’m ready to change my definition

of self.

No more student life, erupting

in violence.

WILDERNESS

Hastily, in the midst of People’s Park riots,

I plan a way to escape from this chaos.

I don’t have a backpack, so I wrap

a cheap army-surplus sleeping bag

around my shoulders, and wearing

sandals instead of boots, I find a ride

to mountain peaks called the Pinnacles.

No tent.

No knowledge.

Stretched out on wet earth, I shiver

while common northern California rain

turns into a rare event—snow.

Hunger.

Why didn’t I bring food?

Forest peace by day, frozen fear

at night.

Fragments of conversation

with groups of hikers, strangers.

By the time I reach

the Tassajara Zen monastery

I’m so grateful

for one tiny cup of hot tea

offered by silent monks

that the meaning

of that common word—gratitude—

grows into something enormous

and marvelous.

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