what molecules move
through the veiny leaves
of the trees and how i ask
animal exhalations
plus water drawn up
to breathe with the sun
Jonathan Potter gets up at sunrise and writes a short poem about it nearly every morning. Other poems and songs also issue forth from Potter’s pen and are posted here in process. For about the cost of a latte each month, you can support this effort. New paid subscribers also receive, gratis, a signed physical copy of Tulips for Elsie, the collection Garrison Keillor called “a bold adventurous book with plenty of sharp turns at high speed.”
You feel the experience of earth here