Poems by Rebecca Leet
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Tea and the Traverse of Random Energy
by Rebecca Leet
From Canary Summer 2020
Rebecca is fed in every season by her relationship with the old white oak that shades her patio, a much-needed solace since she lives only two miles from the Pentagon in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
As I dribble milk into morning tea,
a filament of random energy
zigzags through my brain – slipping
between the need to buy broccoli
and the need to change oil in my car –
and awareness of my mortality
shimmies forward. One day, I will dissolve
into mere molecules, indistinguishable
from those of the oak shading my patio.
Sifted together, we’ll become sister shares
of a new organism – like threads in a carpet,
interwoven, impossible to see where one begins
or ends. Linked inextricably.
Just, of course, as we are now.
© Rebecca Leet