Maya: Because we all need to breathe in soft stillness from time to time. whether in the big looming shadow of *whispers*…a global crisis. Or when old wounds all reopen in a lacerated symphony upon stretching too thin. Consider this a very loving and gentle reminder to send your body home.

when the body is broken
and continues to walk without
pause,
it mourns for stillness.
the body makes ground
wounds open
again
and again
and again
and again.
at this moment,
somewhere in the world,
bees return to hives
birds to nests
tides to shore
and one day,
my body comes home.