A journal of art + literature engaging with nature, culture, the environment & ecology

Birch

Birdy Asya, Belarus

 

A birch looks at the sky,

Waits for news from the wind.

It wants to know 

What is happening in other places?

The wind appears, 

Gently hugging each leaf.

The birch stretches its branches

To its interlocutor.

The wind begins her story.

Birdy Asya lives in Minsk, Belarus. She is 22 years old and works as a teacher of German. Asya enjoys writing poetry in English, Russian and Belarusian, as well as essays in different languages. She also draws.

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