Taste: BBQ jackfruit; a chocolate buckwheat waffle Sound: trickling water; birdsong; gun shot; " You Need to Calm Down " " Queens Everywhere " Sight: tent webs-cyrtophora; foxglove-digitalis-a twisted stem; tiger lily; daisies; a ladybug; forest sky; a cat at play--leaping Smell: mint Touch: a purring cat; thistle pricks and stings Extra: a slow reading project — "If that old book was true/the first verse would say Embrace/the world. Be friendly. The forests are glad you breathe./I see now/the Earth itself does have a face." — "First Verse" Tim Seibles "ever want to know what would happen if your life could be fertilized by a love thought from a loved one who loves you" — "Walking Down Park," Nikki Giovanni Here: Poems for the Planet , Copper Canyon Press Grateful for: tails and 'tizers; my body; poetry
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