Self-Care at the Baseball Diamond
for May 2020Emily Perez
Today we shouted
in the baseball diamond
because we could.
Today we showed the sun
our skin. Today we loosed
the air from these four walls,
their shame and shine. Inside
we lick each other’s spoons
and muss each other’s
covers in the morning
and the night. Scrape toothpaste
spit from sinks. Spill drinks
and sugar on the floor. We yell
we’ve had enough. We yell
enough when we have yelled
enough. Today we took our mess
into the light to let it air,
comingled all our breath
beyond the door, allowed
our loud and more.
Overheard
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feather-frond
prickle-spindle
shadow-step
trunk-tower
silenceofthe
sway-branched
needle-leafed
light-locked
root-route
water-wending
xylem-highway
earth-crunch
dis-integration
moss-matter
rhizomes-rending
tubules-tendering
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How do trees sing
each other?
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