A planet becomes an attentive presence, and the speaker learns that silence can be received rather than solved.
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The planet puts its ear to the ground. I lower my voice. A sentence I had carried for years loses its sharp edge. The soil does not forgive me. It simply receives the weight and goes on turning.
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A nature & reflection poem about planet, ear, word, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
Scale becomes an unstable instrument as the speaker tries to judge a thing that will not stay still.
A nature & reflection poem about scale, tremor, material, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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