I learned this from a friend. That’s how this one starts, from a friend. With a root stretching out far from its home, still connected and only partially seen, like a shark’s fin sticking out of the earth. It runs thick and strong, breaking through sidewalks causing human repair and risking its own demise by being true. True through the ground and true to where it always and never is. Like a mushroom sending signals through the dirt, telling the other creatures what the others need. It’s life. It’s the life beneath us. That we don’t pay attention to. This life is beneath us. It’s beneath me.
I learned this from a friend. That’s how this one starts.
-tom hymn
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