Ok I’ll wind up highlighting every line of this poem! It’s one of your best, Erika💚

But her roots can crack concrete.
She screams hurricanes into being.
Her fingers of ice claw mountains to the bone.
She hums with the earth and sets it to quaking.
She bakes desert landscapes into desiccated wastelands.
She hones toothpicks of timber and sucks
tides to the sea. The glint in her eye
stokes fire and she bleeds oil while crying.
Nature Lives in the Crack of a Sidewalk
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Erika Burkhalter
Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Aug 8, 2023
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Ok I’ll wind up highlighting every line of this poem! It’s one of your best, Erika💚
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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