Learning to Breathe

by Michelle Wiegers

Drawing in bright hues slowly, autumn leaves of illumination become the air in my lungs.

Taking in gusts of living color, I am learning to breathe in life’s vibrancy.

Inhaling vitality, exhaling anguish, in, and out, receiving the rhythm of currents of color moving within.

Dispelling dim dissolution, I cast off shadows, exchanging this dark stain for tinctured light.

Radiant colors collide into each strung muscle, now becoming unstrung, as I breathe in the flow of this circulating iridescence.

(Originally appeared in The Wayfarer)