listening 2...

Pear tree

in parking lot

informs me 

that: "life

is about loving 

the soil you are in"

spoken from:

a three foot

by three foot 

patch

that cars

pull up to

and people
pile carts on

and the birds

who see trees

from the sky

that shelters them

in context of the 

massive earth curving

outward and downward

from beneath their roots 

recognize all life

as the capitulation
to random placement

and the harnessing

of incidental light…

lucy meskill