Poem for Learners

43 seconds of praise for persisting as learners in fall 2020. The text is: For all of the learners flying out to the air from Texas to Taiwan to Japan and New York. We fly we sit we wait, for pandemica to lift, affecting all of us, the whole world over, in different ways from trees to mountains to seas. We are the bumble bees, taking to the streams and clover and water cups. Tiny toe sucking it up. We’ve lived through nuclear air, Hades ascent and furious fire. We’ve lived through shared breath. And still we’re here.