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Anthropocene Pastoral

10/18/2022

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In the beginning, the ending was beautiful.
Early spring everywhere, the trees furred
pink and white, lawns the sharp green
that meant new. The sky so blue it looked
manufactured. Robins. We'd heard
the cherry blossoms wouldn't blossom
this year, but what was one epic blooming
when even the desert was an explosion
of verbena? When bobcats slinked through
primroses. When coyotes slept deep in orange
poppies. One New Year's Day we woke
to daffodils, wisteria, onion grass wafting
through the open windows. Near the end,
we were eyeletted. We were cottoned.
We were sundressed and barefoot. At least
it's starting gentle
, we said. An absurd comfort,
we knew, a placebo. But we were built like that.
Built to say at least. Built to reach for the heat
of skin on skin even when we were already hot,
built to love the purpling desert in the twilight, 
​built to marvel over the pink bursting dogwoods,
to hold tight to every pleasure even as we
​rocked together toward the graying, even as
we held each other, warmth to warmth,
and say sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry while petals
sifted softly to the ground all around us.

By Catherine Pierce




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