Wage peace with your
breath.
Breathe in firemen and
rubble,
breathe out whole buildings
and flocks of blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children
and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion
and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong
friendships intact.
Wage peace with your
listening:
hearing sirens, pray
loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds, clothes
pins, clean rivers.
Make soup.
Learn to knit and make
a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing
raspberries,
imagine grief as the
outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.
Never has the world
seemed so fresh and precious.
Have a cup of tea and
rejoice.
Act as if armistice
has already arrived.
Don't wait another minute.