And then one day
it was not safer to be numb
and I walked into the field
and lay me down in the shining grass
and opened myself to the sky.
And all my petals fell.
For a while I did not think
that I would survive
the loss. A great bird
circled my bones.
And then the wind
came and I became wind.
And the darkness came
and I became darkness.
And the earth
reached up
with its terrible gravity
and I became the earth.
And I asked who is
the one who believes
she is lost?
And in the asking
I felt her disappear.