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“Gardeners, are, by their nature, people who believe in regeneration, as poet Laura Villareal points out. They understand that the broken world we inherit can also be amended, with compost, worms, and steady tending. They have seen that the tended earth, in turn, offers up radical abundance—not only of food, but of insects, birds, rhizomes, and soil. The garden surprises us in unexpected ways. Oregano winters over. Wild miner’s lettuce springs back. A volunteer pumpkin luxuriates near the compost bin. Suddenly met with abundance, we beg people to come help harvest our plums. We befriend a plot of earth, and it befriends us in return. By some powerful force, this friendship brings us into a fuller, more just communion with the human and nonhuman at once. Sometimes, in the face of huge pain, the things of the earth can help reroute any of us toward awe and fascination.”
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
“I have a child who asks a question of the air’s every hum. He has not learned grief. Sky, he says, and shovels soil into his mouth, lets it drip out mud.”
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
― Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
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