instructions for
a joy
planter
by christine nicole gibson
I won't tell you to follow a Gezer calendar.
That language and those practices were always lost on me,
much to the chagrin of my sisters in the south.
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Whatever ritual you may find will always be a
relatively late arrival on earth's scene.
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My observations reach back further
through the ancient
passage of millenia.
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Spot it. This requires a certain kind of openness to the natural
world around you.
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Distance yourself from it, ever so slightly.
If you try to control what you see,
you'll lose touch with its beauty.
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Soak it up.
When you're suitably relaxed,
you'll feel a universal embrace.