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I have hugged a three thousand year old redwood tree and asked it to remember me
someday  tree will use marrow, absorb my nitrogen,  my iron that I grew accustomed to seeing in my youth drip red drip
every month clearing my ****** to grow its own leafy children
I will be locked in it’s green splendor
come spring and summer
and fall I will die again as I did before, and in winter I will disappear as I have done before o my to defy death with the help of my ringed friend. We together. A redwood in my heart my heart in a redwood
Among my prairie of tears, I planted
sweet corn singing
I hand you a flower and you open your palm and place a coal stone

I smile
after many years your flowers were pressed
died and combined
made dark but I do not just see one
I see the bouquet you gave
(The years and the darkness of soil mixed with all the gentle things in your heart)
Ten rivers lift
and become clouds
over the ocean of my heart
Light, I am light enough to float
what song can a bell make
that does not pierce the heart

(what melody can I sing when love entangles me to form
music does not need to be seen, so why do I gulp at the thought of their deaths)
the people sauntering
around us are their own celestial bodies detached from the outside world
in their mind, inside their screens —they are far, far away.

we pass pedestrians on the street, towards
the same corner park, where we sit and chat, but we are light years from the other folks and from one another. and i wondering if i tilted my phone and aim it’s reflection into their eyes if they’d receive it, if the speed of light is really all it’s cracked up to be then how quickly can it reach them play my golden record of connection “hello, from this child of planet earth with oversized limbs”
Allude to Voyager space craft’s golden record
Recording of “hello from the children of earth”

Symbols that I wish to further connect

1. star and their distance
to people and their distance from each other

Hyperbole/ exaggeration: distance between human being

Overall focus/ shine a light on: phone as a source of disconnection from reality or human interaction as well as nature.

Nature: possibilities to tie in :
1. Insert fauna/ flora that is symbolic of connection or disconnection
Look up flowers and withering spans
+ things that are interdependent??
Maybe

Or different direction: ??

Review title
Draft 3
La lenta sabiduría de la lengua
escurre con corriente fuerte y llena
un frasco entró
¿quien se entera? si cada lengua pide
ojos y cada par de ojos suena
en diferente lengua

¿y qué tal la sabiduría del corazón?
la que dicen que no tiene razón
¿cuantos frascos podrá ella llenar ?
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