germ of everything

Posted on August 17, 2021 by istsfor manity

These Findings

In the dust motes of the sea—
In the rains of seeds—
The germ of everything,
A death blow averted.

“When you paused for a poem
it could reshape the day
you had just been living.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye / “Every day as a wide field, every page”

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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