April 6, 2026

Feel how we push, firm
shouldered into the sun, all
bask and quench. Hear
how we echo and harmonize,
petal dishes gathering up
each other’s wobbling
waves. Taste this rain
that douses us, how we drink
and reach and drink and
see how we shine
in each other, gain
and grow within our plots
whether shared or not, how
each pot holds root stem bloom
apart and yet as one.


love notes
a ritual to start the week

Christopher Shepard