Intersecting systems: root, economic, colonial, respiratory, solar, digestive, river, reproductive, storm, knowledge, waste, nervous, prison, skeletal, soil, circulatory, filing, operating, endocrine, transportation, (fill in the blank)…

the wisdom of the river and seeds know a tender bloom from strange fire, from a rain that drowns

Swelling and floating, the clouds squeezed rain from every pore in a legato symphony of meteorologic coalescence. The rain and my tears fell together. 

how branch-, battle-, bullet-, blister-carved aching arms and muddy water-treaded boots feel in the peat