The Morning reading: "there is no other body"

Within this tree
~ Jane Hirshfield


Within this tree
another tree
inhabits the same body;
within this stone
another stone rests,
its many shades of grey
the same,
its identical
surface and weight.
And within my body,
another body,
whose history, waiting,
sings: there is no other body,
it sings,
there is no other world.

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image: Georgia O'Keefe - "The Lawrence Tree"

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(with thanks to the beauty we love)