Art: Mark Collins
https://markcollinsfineart.com/
Epigeal: adjective of botanical nature.
Growing on or close to the ground.
Grounded. Grounded, yet emerging.
A well-rooted aspiration to be a
bold something despite the vulnerabilities
inherent in just showing up.
~
Hepatica nobilis,
a docile woodland
plant of buttercup relation and oak
familiarity, roots in calcareous, clay-rich
soils, emerges in late winter or early
spring to call me out into the world again.
Her liver-leaf, hairy stem, and purple
petals are my body’s unfolding and
the beauty that I want to put onto this
Earth, somehow.
To be there, intentionally visible, just to
the other side of the dark season requires
something that little plants have mastered
and humans are still apprenticing to. We
are learning, I hope, to find our way back
to well-lit places with a vigorous resilience.
I’ll call it wisdom.
~
The offerings of flowers and a generous self
should never be squandered. This world can’t
wait for reluctant witnesses.
Love is here.
And, then, gone.
From a book collaboration project with artist Mark Collins
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