Skin To Bark – Poetry For Your Wild Heart

March 10, 2025

by Hagar Harpak

Skin To Bark

Between the greens I find a reality of belonging

Skin to bark becomes a sensation of inseparable

Of a universe unfolding

Of beingness becoming more of existence 

In the forest I breathe an I into a whole

Skin to bark breathes new configurations

Of identity through timelessness

Of time within no self at all

Of space signaling time to weave

A vastness greater than what we can 

Comprehend 

Hands grow roots in soil 

Soul softens skin into bark

Aging in the forest becomes a sacred bond 

Death devours doubts of worthiness

Delicate lines cross and no

One thing is a thread unbound

Interwoven elegance spreading sentiments 

Of freedom and

Interdependence

Plants surround a me far gone

Bark and skin and breath and birdsong

Gone yet here

I’ll raise the children that came through me

I’ll see them into adulthood

Love will saturate hearts

Grateful for this human form that 

Birthed life and fed and nourished

Like the earth beneath those hands

Make sure to look into their eyes and smile

Make sure to tend with tenderness

To this fleeting spark

In dirt I put my thoughts

Skin surrenders to bark’s hold

And nothing holds together 

The unraveling of self and other and more 

The intermingle of seed and soil

Water flows from sky and under

Ground

What will grow next in the forest of this life?

This life and that life interweave

Decay feeds cycles of becoming 

Leaves and branches and insects and stems

Skin and bark inseparable

Decomposition 

Reformulation 

Undone 

Make this a delicious run

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XOXO

Hagar

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