✨ Cultivate

trusting the turning ...

Cultivate

Since it is spring
and the ground is ready
we are planting seeds
trusting the turning earth
to bring the harvest

Choosing carefully
the fruit we will need
preserved for winter days

We have been practicing
for a long time now
planting in our own soil
the seeds of our own harvest

Even the roots of what
you thought were weeds
can save your life

—Bethany Lee

From Etude for Belonging: poems for practicing courage and hope, Fernwood Press. Copyright © 2021 by Bethany Lee. Used by permission of Fernwood Press. All rights reserved. www.fernwoodpress.com. Photo by Leanna Lewis, via Unsplash.