Redwood
Poetry

She is Real

Aja Lelchuk

October 2021
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Her eyes wide as life-rings inside redwood trees
Her strides cousins of the fawns

Legs intertwining with wind and tips of grass
Her ears pull together sound waves of cicadas, grasshoppers, fireflies

She is real
She is of element upon element
Of seed and water
Of crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
Of the footprints in the soil and the heartbeats attached

Legs up and down
Eyes back and forth
Oxygen in and out

She is real because she has joined the land of the beings

Become part of the life that propels
The endless circles, the constant flow

Rejoice in this place where life is free and borderless
Oceans deep as your love
Fields wide as your curiosity
Mountains tall as you might become

Her pulse is the same as yours
And the animals she resembles
The animals that resemble you.

You are as real as beings and the land you reside in.
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