tender gravity by Marybeth Holleman

Author:Marybeth Holleman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781597099523
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

to see a plant exhale.

My teacher says all violence

would subside, if not disappear

if each of us, everywhere, just

paid attention to our breath.

in. then out.

It’s so easy we don’t even have

to think about breathing but when

I listen and wait for call and response,

I learn there’s just so much I—

A scientist claims that the breath

of plants can save us from

warming climates and acid seas

if only we’d re-green our world.

to relax, exhale twice as long.

Once I sat on a rock that had

recently been under a river of ice,

shaped now by the softest green moss

so gently it felt like a breath.

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