Wild Iris in the Tamarack forest of Quaking Bog, Minneapolis, MN

The Call

what in your lifE
is calling you?

when all the noise
is silenced,
the meetings
adjourned,
the lists laid aside,
and the wild iris
blooms by itself
in the dark forest,
what still pulls
on your soul?

in the silence
between your
heartbeats
hides a summons.

do you hear it?

name it,
if you must,
or leave it
nameless,

but why pretend
it is not there?

from The Box: Remembering the Gift
by The Terma Collective
based on a Navajo prayer

More Wild Iris in the Tamarack forest of Quaking Bog, Minneapolis, MN

Photos by Barbara
Quaking Bog
Theo Wirth Park
Minneapolis, MN