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For the Life of This Planet

For the Life of This Planet The way the red sun surrenders its wholeness to curving ocean bit by bit. The way curving ocean gives birth to the birth of stars in the growing darkness, wearing everything in its path to cosmic smoothness. The impulse of stones rolling towards their own roundness. The unexpected comets of flying fish. And Forest, Great-Breathing-Spirit, rooting to the very end for the life of this planet. Grace Nichols Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown from I have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2010) Reprinted in 40 Poems for 40 Years (Poems on the Underground 2026)

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