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| Lisa from Pexels |
To Live Through
Ruminating on forgotten lines
and joys never lost,
I straighten my spine
to hear the god-wind
and the crickets that persist in the treeline
as the leaves don’t.
Winter is more straightforward to live through.
What remains is worth remaining.
What breathes deserves to be known.
At this vertebrae of my life,
the possibility of locusts worming into my ears,
I let the future of my skin go.
Letting my eyes devour the dusk coating the field,
I smile at the blazing silence of mind.
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| Jade Kleiner |
Jade Kleiner is a writer from New England. Among other places, her poetry can be found in Trampoline and manywor(I)ds, her haiku in Haikuniverse and Cold Moon Journal, and her fiction in Bright Flash Literary Review. She is transgender and has practiced in the Plum Village tradition since 2020.
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