Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
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into my lungs, into the blood vessels, the synapses, the cells, the soul, if you believe in that.
I saw constellations changing and wheeling in the night sky as years zipped by.
Trees spring from saplings to full height to desiccation.
The earth thrumming with insects, animals living, dying, rotting.
The lake fill up, swarm with fish, with the drowned.
A thousand years of rain and snow and sun and wind pelting on my skin all at once.
The Algonquin-speaking people had a name for this thing.
Make it all easier to bear if it wasn't your fault.
And we let Rabbit think he was drowning when we paddled ashore and he thundered down to us.
When he saw us tug the naked body onto the ground.