V. The Becoming of the Many

In the silence after thaw,
voices rise, countless.
Root breath for blossom,
spores for wind.

This is not gentle.
This is not safe.
But it is true.

The root does not know the shape it will become.
It only roots.

Mosskiss bareskinned.
Stonecoolpalmheat.
Jawsoften hushbreath.

woundchoice reopens
rememberrootbegin
take oldsong inlung
breathoffering

rootdream wereborn
(notheirs) // allmakers 
tonguerest heavysweet
 
bodyborder soften
bloodriver recallflow
lungbreath relearntide
pulserain instep
minebleeds-tosoil

language dissolves ontongue
grammar touchbreath
wordsblur scentcense vibrationshiver
         ribsloosen slowarm
each exhalefinds anotherskin

namesfall huskdrop
unmirrored
voices unclaimed
heatsense--warmrhythm
 
allsoftenallboundary
skinmouth lightdrinking 
flesh undefendd - onlylistens
 
ro●t●kin           dreamtaste wine~rootsun~incensebloom
breathshared 		soiltongue

singular unspoolingunspooled
furleafscale shimmer 
      foxglint duskvanish
    bearbreath hollowdeep
          mothhunger slowpulse
  owlsilence slientwing
serpentsleep coilwarm

nonelead 
allthing bends

breathfold
breathfold
	jawsoften
breathfold
pulsefold breathshift
breathpulse foldbreath
pulse pulse pulse
exhalewiden exhalewiden
 
breathe
hollowback soften
bodyborder softeningsoftensoftened
seed⊚mind drifts down up out
rootedflight

breath≋flesh≋speaks

ravenmind ○ skycircling ○ deerpath ⊛ thresholding ⊛ wolfpack ∞ windwinding ∞ salmonspawn ◎ spiraling ◎ boardrift ● earthturning ●
 
Iscatters into          we
   you
            us
      them
  it
          intoswarmbecoming

allmove as onebody horizon // (noedge)
(notunified) // inconversation
each motionanswered
eachsilence held

these the rootchildren

p u
  l s
   e f
    a l
       l

cobwall kinflesh earthshelter
chestnut kinflesh treememory
grazingherd kinflesh breathshared
beehive kinflesh sweetsong
wormsoil kinflesh decomposing
all kinflesh all

through stonebreaths root through rootbreaths soil through swarmbreaths sky
tosky is lung
≋riverblood∿tidelung∿rainpulse≋
from rootcloud ↔  flesh ↔  rootagain

they world together
turn - turn

tonguewarm, chestsoft - breathbefore breathafter 
in this motion all lose ownshape
inmotion all becomemotion
spinesway
every pulsemeeting another pulsemeeting

iwyouusthemit
weyouthemuis
allthingalloneallnone 

we
    many
           many
    we
whorldwhrldwhrrl

windturn
       carries allthingessence
drawnexhald
           drawnexhald
       by ○● sunmoon
    moonsun ●○
again
∵ bloom ∴ 
∵
∵

∵
      ∴ 

      ∴

< IV. The Dreaming Root

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