Chelan Harkin

Chelan Harkin

if you ever read this

please know you were—

of course—completely right

My heart’s longing

was the same thing

that inspired your poems

Good Medicine

was the magic tonic

hidden in my chest

And so, I too

became a vehicle,

like you

Alchemist of another kind

Sherpa from a different line

same rich soil, from which all light grows

who you showed how, to hold our shadows

.pete rezac