Gathering, a lost art: Hannah Newman

March 19, 2020 Kate Belew with Hannah Newman (Chicago)

We kneel beside the juniper 

A few sprigs each with gratitude 

I want to say sorry though, that is only part of it. 

Reflections on taking. Taking, healing, hiding.

This makes a mirror, two sided.

I observe, take notes. 

Wondering is a shade of lavender. 

A shade I equate with family.

Fields and fields of them. Ancestral plant.

Gathering. A lost art. 

And so I gather today

Thoughts, conversations, and distractions,

that portrait, blade of grass, pool of 

remedy made by hand