poem from the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in the Woodland Garden by Arisa White. everything emerges from intimacy with your own life you walk between worlds circle and circle until revolution is ritual on which side are you misaligned? you are the answer to be trusted listen for the portal plant your body like a bulb dredge through your nervous grid you are safe and beauty devastates your heart is where you meet the gifts child of earth and fire and air of university your