There are those among us have already learned to hold devastation and tenderness in the same breath, who have fallen into the dark and found something worth bringing back. Have you found a way to move amidst the charred and submerged? Will you show us how?
If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, we share from our archive this original poem by our guiding teacher Mark Coleman.
Read for a wide and loving embrace of Earth, from its mountains to meadows, frozen ponds to slender grass. In this poem, Rosemerry also dares to reach for hope.
Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
“All it takes... is a photo of earth from space... and I’m stunned again, how much we are in this together.” Breathe in, breathe out, this poem by Rosemerry.
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