Swan, Heather

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Old Dominion University

Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts Volume 1 Eco-Gencies: Eco-Critical Responses to Contemporary Environmental Crises Article 12 2015 Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light Heather Swan Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/gh  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Swan, Heather. "Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light." Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts, vol. 1, 2015 , pp. 189-190. This Poem is brought to you for free and open access by ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts by an authorized editor of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@odu.edu. Bs’d Green Humanities, vol. 1 (2015), pp. 189-190 www.greenhumanities.org © 2015  Heather Swan  Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light   and I carry ripened plums, waiting to find the one who is interested in tasting.   How can we ever be known?   Today the lily sends up a fifth white-tipped tendril, the promise of another flower opening, and I think, this must mean this plant is happy, here, in this house, by this window. Is this the right deduction?   The taller plant leans and leans toward the light. I turn it away, and soon its big hands are reaching again toward what nourishes it, but what it can never touch.   190 / Green Humanities 1 (2015) Couldn’t the yellowing leaves of the maple and their falling also be a sign of joy? Another kind of leaning into. A letting go of one thing to fall into another.  A kind of trust I cannot imagine.  

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