by Madison Nash
People who can do anything make it look easy
Those fuckers are only well practiced at their field of errors
– Born from the vaginal tree
Take your lesson from Redwoods
The hardiest in the forest kingdom
Lightning can strike down through an anatomy of tree-dom
/half/ Its entity
And that burnt trunk will compost its insides to
sprout a new self
Rising to the canopy out of marooned ashes. Phoenixian bark and limb.
The height of the pacific northwest was destroyed in pursuit of this
undecayable wood
To create people homes and furniture that withstand the destruction of being from earth
The redwoods have Mastered suffering and
If you need a lesson, Shove your roots through the damn concrete
Uneven the sidewalk before you
And make it so people have no choice but to acknowledge you in their footing
–If You were born from the vaginal tree
Know the species only dies when it denies the richness of its destroyed composition
… wont you use it To grow again
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Madison Nash is a writer and photographer from Atlanta, GA. She lives in Brooklyn and uses language to eat the source. Find more of her work at: madisonmarienash.com/writing.
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