Roots

This week’s postcard from the universe is simian.

Digging to establish a new bed at the cottonwood drip line, I unearth this little blue ape or Neanderthal.

It’s been there a few seasons as a root had twined between legs.

The same forkful also turned up a little bone.

Gardening, tending the earth and growing food, is riding the roots of my ancestry. I know it in my bones.

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