Beneath the Ground
NovPAD 2024 | Day 9: Soil
I would write of trees rising, bearing fruit and spreading
leaves, but I keep returning to the soil, as if by toil
just enough and in the choicest places, I might find
traces of some element sublime, or come to know
precise conditions by which new life might grow,
perfect blend of once-living matter broken down,
time turning nitrogen with traces of so many th…
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