ancient remedies Raquel Medora can you tell me?how the roots and the leaves listen while i place my hand on their trunks and ask them to whisper their wisdom as if the bark could bark orders at me about how to save a marriage how to serve how to hide emotions in a vaulted reserve how the calluses on my memories have lived in my brain in vain can it snap back into place as if snapping wouldn’t just break a branch awaywithout a roof the air is like transparency voiceless and present no facet of truth to unearth your hands like wiggling worms ambition like a slippery snail hidden face of a temptress let her, like water, wash away

More from Raquel Medora ↓

• @raquel.medora on Instagram
• Lost in Thought on Substack
• Her book, Moms Are The Strongest Men, is out now

You can listen to me read Raquel Medora’s poem, The Month of Lavender, over on Instagram @rembrandts.cure

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