Pando
You send up aspens as mouths, lungs, skin
opening and closing like flowers.
Long years of thousands-of-years
you’ve squatted under earth.
We call you delicate, fair,
a quaking trembler;
you breathe trees in and out
like a bellows.
Make every day a beautiful day.
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You send up aspens as mouths, lungs, skin
opening and closing like flowers.
Long years of thousands-of-years
you’ve squatted under earth.
We call you delicate, fair,
a quaking trembler;
you breathe trees in and out
like a bellows.