Lost

I listened to Padraig O'Tuama read this favorite poem of his on a podcast this week. Oh my.... 

Lost

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you

Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,

I have made this place around you.

If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,

You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows

Where you are. You must let it find you. 

-David Wagoner 

rainy day run to the Arboretum this morning 

where we took Anna's senior photos two years ago