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Better Way to Breathe

from becoming home by Monica Laytham

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Your song is an ember
waiting to be believed.
Small breaths, and you tell her,
tell her she can see -
see a red leaf in a silent chrome.
Oh, you need to let her rest before you speak.

His eyes are a mirror,
a song that captures me,
fills my soul with dust and dirt,
with what I'm made to be -
be a breath, deep in the turned-up soil of moments.
Oh, I need to be awake so I can dream.

I lay, and my lover
holds my resting feet.
Unseen in the ash-bough's curve,
we wander the day that sees us free.
Free from dead seeds and the dried-up concrete streets,
oh, I've learned that there's a better way to breathe.

Free from dead seeds and the dried-up concrete streets,
oh, I've learned that there's a better way to breathe.

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from becoming home, released April 7, 2016

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Monica Laytham Evanston, Illinois

After a long life in Chicago, Monica now lives on a catholic worker farm in the rural midwest.

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