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i trimmed back the blueberry bushes because their branches are like old memories and i knew i should be thinking about which branches were healthiest but i was thinking about which branches looked the most like they were dancing
a seed appears to be dead although it is always respirating and that is a little like me before i started sticking my hands in the soil I tried to make things beautiful on a screen, placing little dots in a row and putting them in a show
now my dots go in the ground and turn into nourishment and there is no praise to make me look lovingly into the imaginary mirror while the real mirror cracks with its own laughter but here i am making a poem as if there is an audience so i guess me and my ego are pals, and maybe i can start to forget if i’m the one bumping my head mindlessly on the low ceiling during walking meditation or the ceiling itself, grateful for the touch
Katie Frank is a 2016 Garden Apprentice. She is from Silver Spring, Maryland.
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