Tuesday, August 13, 2024: Kinship -- Don’t you feel it some mornings
Kinship
Don’t you feel it some mornings
before the words of news stories
and headlines take over the mind—
this kinship with all things
humming in the quieter air
around chipmunk and vole, around
crocus bloom and old fence post
whose rusted barbed wire
has buried itself in tree trunks,
and can no longer harm?
R3: Even the tiny newts you move
out of the road and the wooly bear
caterpillar using its whole body
to inch toward the other side.
R1: Don’t you feel it especially
with your neighbor, whose
bumper sticker and yard signs
suggest he believes things
bewildering to you, whose face
still fills with light when he
sees you passing by, and shakes
your hand, his bare palm
so warm against your own? – James Crews
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