The Chorus Encircles Her - Kate Dougherty

[Lawrence Robinson]

The Chorus Encircles Her

                             
You there inside your skin, don't let them win
If they call breast cancer "breaking up the nest"
go to your wooded hills, gather the grasses
weave us baskets

Listen
Can you hear them?
Ancestors singing you 
encircling you 
weaving you in their lap
 
       For years you heard our songs
       bowed low; reached high  
                trees, grasses, nuts and seeds
                roots, stalks, flowers, leaves
       
       Come into these hills, child
       choose us, gather us 
       roots for your root basket
       Take us home
       We are home

               Wholeness
                   song of being -
                      love this nest
 

		- Kate Dougherty


 "You there inside your skin, don't let them win."
from This Time The Chorus Hisses And Howls by Judith Tannenbaum



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