Two Poems:
“How to Give Thanks for a Broken Leg” by Barbara Kingsolver
“Staring at Aspens: A History Lesson” by Richard Blanco
A Poem:
Listen to the wind breathing
through the branches still alive with the story.
Concede your debt to life’s grammar, even
as it nailed you in one fell stroke
from subject to object.
Nature to cypress tree, slough
blue heron, mangrove, river
estuary, roseate spoonbill, tree crab
alligator flag, slash pine, anhinga.
Listen to the wind through the trees,
still alive with the story of life before
the conquering.
Italics: First sentence in italics is from the Blanco poem; the second is from the Kingsolver poem.
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