The Seed Doesn't Check The Soil
# The Seed Doesn't Check The Soil
The seed went into the dark without one question asked, and the crack closed over it like a page turning, and nothing in the ground required it to explain the fall. That is the part this October morning was teaching from the very start, if you followed the unaddressed thanks all the way down: gratitude goes into the ground the way the season lets its leaves go, and the ground does not sit the seed for an interview before it begins. No form arrived requesting the soil's qualifications. No clerk came out to certify that the seam in the stairs was adequate, that the mended wall met code, that the burned lot had satisfied some minimum standard of worthiness before anything might be allowed to root there. The seed fell — into cracked lots and mended walls and the seams of stairs nobody praises — and before the falling had even finished, the first root was al…
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