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9/23/2021 A body too

Con/Jur/d
Sep 23, 2021
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“The way I exercise — no wonder — today I have lower back pain”
“All the time we forget — we’re not a tree — or a cool breeze — A hard rain is supposed to fall today — The Season started early and never went away”
“I respect poets who want to be reborn as ‘tree’ — A landscape of Being worth striving for”
“The sap has a harder time rising this season — its harder to read as I did last season — body sprawled — unmoving — sometimes I didn’t move my trunk except for meals — my twigs gently moving leaves”
“I could spend several lifetimes mapping the topography of your thoughts and feelings”
“Sometimes we forget we’re a tree — bearing witness to whole worlds living and dying — we believe we’re a mammal scurrying — accomplishing — doing”
“Today we are busy — tomorrow we rest”

Hope ya’all take the time to remember your treeness today.

Con/Jur/d, 9/23/2021

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Gwyllm Llwydd
Writes Gwyllm’s Newsletter ·Sep 23, 2021Liked by Con/Jur/d

The Trees

The trees are coming into leaf

Like something almost being said;

The recent buds relax and spread,

Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again

And we grow old? No, they die too,

Their yearly trick of looking new

Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh

In fullgrown thickness every May.

Last year is dead, they seem to say,

Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

-Philip Larkin

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