The Generous Green, December 23

Poem and Reflection #4 in a series for Advent, 2020

Michelle Berry Lane

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Photo copyright Michelle Lane, 2019

In the snowless, winter woods
all but the hardiest green is gone.
It gathers at the ground,
the vibrant moss

around knuckled roots
of gray-brown trees,
lining crevices in old bark,
on the bodies of fallen comrades.

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Michelle Berry Lane

Earthling, Writer, Teacher, Learner; Attending to thresholds and the uncovering of meaning. MA in Theopoetics & Writing (ESR ‘23); taught kids sci/nature 25+y