before & beyond the anthropocene

there are stars
there is medicine embedded into every word
you had taken me to the woods to dance, stroked my hair

it only took us 20 billion years
but we have made it back to one another

it was only by sitting still and listening
that we have returned into one another’s eyes
laughing that we thought it had to be so complicated

all we needed to find one another again
was to listen and sit still
in the woods, dancing