Interbeing

‘Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer’ 

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1952

Crane calls tear through

seams in sky or time—

listen: history

loosens itself undone.

Prayer is less ascent,

more dispersal of self

into shadow/double/kin:

feathered/fungal/ruinous.

In this trembling network, 

I am no longer; we thicken 

with restless porosity—

otherwise known as love.

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Tom Nutting (he/they) is a writer and psychiatrist from Bristol, UK. He writes on queer ecologies, activism, and mental illness. He has been shortlisted for the Starkie and MĀNOA poetry prizes and won the Lisa Thomas Poetry Prize. His poetry and prose have been published in Magma, The Stinging Fly, fourteen poems, The Oxford Review of Books, The Hopper, and elsewhere.