Snow & Spruce Forest

Tarjei Vesaas

Talk about what home is —
snow and spruce forest 
is home.

From the very start 
it is ours. 
Before anyone has told us 
that it is snow and spruce forest, 
it has its place in…

The Head of a Dandelion

Alice Oswald

This is the dandelion with its thousand faculties

like an old woman taken by the neck
and shaken to pieces.

Sire of Sorrow (Job’s Sad Song)

Joni Mitchell

On the Road to Konya

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about God
and I just want to go and sit under a tree

but then the tree starts talking to me about God
and we find ourselves in another conversation

Twenty-three

Yusuf Misdaq

1

Sometimes I stare out into an expansive sky
And see perfect summer trees with the sun inside them 
And these things, they beat me

Aliving

Yusuf Misdaq

1

Wherefore art Thou?

2

I’ve said the word ‘before’
In my head enough times
And now it rhymes with silence and has lost all meaning

Shelter from the Warm

Yusuf Misdaq

I am a new immigrant on this dandelion orb: Earth

‘Step lightly’ is what my instinct tells me

I feel the danger in the gentle spring breeze