Have you noticed the pheromones
the world is sending out to you?
Not wanting you to save it,
just to fall in love with it.
Tiny violets reassure the hillside
which every winter has been tormented by ice.
When the dam is removed after a century, salmon
already know their way to their ancestors’ birthplace.
The jazz of the meadowlark.
Laughter, even at funerals.
Such things are the rope and bucket
that haul you up out of your dank well.
The smell of lilacs is meant for bees
but it comes to you.
If you make friends with crows
they give you gifts.
Downtown a kid you don’t know
smiles at you anyway.
It’s the world’s way of letting you know
it wants to stay married to you.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net
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