Conversation with a Seed
BREW Poetry Award Nominee - Open Category / by The Contributing Writer / 1480 views
- Listing ID: 36458
- Poetry Author's Name: Vinita Agrawal
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Poem:
Just the two of us here,
sitting face to face.
Me, a fleck of paused intention
in a coat of dulled brown,
and you: cupped earth.
Outside, goldenrod glowers acid-yellow
in the spruce’s long shade,
rocks clutch their shadow-rags.
Even the granite’s orange lichen
sheds its skin.
But here, in this damp silk
of shaded afternoon,
we touch the quiet.
You think me small?
Listen—this dark is patient craft.
Not like the gull’s slow lope
across a clammy sky,
not like the fireweed’s
unchosen, breeze-less fall.
This dark, is root-ward,
deep and cool as spruce-resonance,
thrumming a different hum.
I hold the blueprint
of the acid-glow,
the feathery grass-head,
the boulder’s slow confession.
I am the before of shadow,
the after of the lichen’s gold.
London rains, Paris turns.
But here, beneath the stain
of one dead branch’s russet,
beneath the weight of years
that shift the very stone,
I am the constant yes
against the world’s persistent no.
I am the quiet conversation
the earth repeats with light.
The husk holds firm
but deep within, a green ignites.
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