We Want To Live Like Trees

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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, Sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.”

-Adrienne Rich from her book, The Dream Of A Common Language

• What thoughts come to you when you read the above quote?
• Turn to your journal or notebook and capture your thoughts.
• Choose a line or a few of the words from the poem and use as a writing prompt
• If you lived like a tree … “How would your life be different to how it is now?”
• Right now in your life -“What would you like to be blazing through the air with …?”