Depart Not

“Depart not from nature according to your fancy, imagining to find ought better by yourself... For verily ‘art’ is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
- Albrecht Dürer

she steeped the sassafrass leaves and roots
within the smooth ceramic teapot
making sure to extract
all the healing essense

then sipped the warm fragrant tea
with her spirit friends, sitting by the sea

the leaving is staying
the roots are becoming present
within each sip of the sassafrass
as her nature mirrors her mother

sighing to herself,

no me without you,
no you without me,

underneath the trees


seeming to sigh
in perfect counterpoint

Kate Lamberg
4/16/12



trees in the western sky~