Regardless
The plants that push up through the junk and the plastic, earlier, later, they’re coming, regardless... … the light shifts regardless. The truth is a kind of regardless. The winter’s nothing to me. Do you think I don’t know about power? You think I was born green? I was. … I’ll blow down that tree so it cracks your roof open. I’ll carpet your house with the river. But I’ll be the reason your own sap’s reviving. I’ll mainline the light to your veins. What’s under your road surface now? What’s under your house’s foundations? What’s warping your doors? What’s giving your world the fresh colours? What’s the key to the song of the bird? What’s forming the beak in the egg? What’s sending the thinnest of green shoots through that rock so the rock starts to split? Ali Smith, Spri