Learning to Breathe
by Michelle Wiegers
Drawing in bright hues slowly,
autumn leaves of illumination
become the air in my lungs.
Taking in gusts of living color,
I am learning to breathe
in life’s vibrancy.
Inhaling vitality,
exhaling anguish,
in, and out,
receiving the rhythm of
currents of color
moving within.
Dispelling dim dissolution,
I cast off shadows,
exchanging this dark stain
for tinctured light.
Radiant colors collide into
each strung muscle,
now becoming unstrung,
as I breathe in the flow of
this circulating iridescence.
(Originally appeared in The Wayfarer)
