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the teachings
of the trees
to know
the teachings of the trees
repeat the word “stillness”
aloud to yourself
ten thousand times
and then remember
they have stood
ten thousand times
long than that
Alexander Shalom Joseph, MFA, MA, is an award winning existentialist, animist and nature focused author of six published books spanning poetry and fiction. He writes a weekly poem on Substack and teaches writing in universities, libraries, museums, hiking trails, schools and prisons across the Colorado Front Range.
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