I think I overdid it yesterday (or maybe I spoke too soon about needing less cough medicine): the cough is back. It’s hard to go slow when you start feeling better after being under the weather for a while.
Listen to the forest
trees with roots entangled
like lovers, joined by soil
bacteria and mycorrhiza
leaves and branches arch
overhead, interlace, form
a bower, a sacred canopy
try to parse the language
of fungus and pheromone,
electron and ion channel
close your eyes and tune
your skin to the wordless
sea of conversation
Inspired by an article in the March 2018 issue of Smithsonian Magazine: “The Whispering of the Trees,” by Richard Grant.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
(Reposted from the Lexington Poetry Month web site: https://lexpomo.com/poem/listen-to-the-forest/)
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