Lungs

Lungs

Justin Lonas

I breathe in
Sunsets to
Breathe out prayers.
Like the old split-trunk willow oak
At the cemetery corner,
A pair of lungs in the winter dusk
Drinking deeply from the good earth
To exhale the life of the world.

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Justin Lonas
Poet & Writer

Justin is a writer (jryanlonas.com), cook, hiker, and aspiring theologian (slowly chipping away at an MDiv through Reformed Theological Seminary) from Chattanooga, Tennessee. By day, he serves at the Chalmers Center at Covenant College.

Photography by Daria Shevtsova