An Existence That Keeps Offering: Lisette Boer

March 31, 2020 Kate Belew with Lisette Boer (Michigan)

Listen, put your ear to that earth 

there is new life about to unfold

the smallest breath, twig, soil at first. 

In time stretching past us 

Listen, I am sorry for the branches broken.

Still, there are parts left to be known 

Uncovered like the leaves of last 

morning's steady awakening. 

And so what will we wait for now?

An existence that keeps offering 

a new kind of generosity that 

holds us through loss until 

we know the after like our own two hands.