Mark 3:7 KJV
[7] But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,

It was a windy day outside and the laundry lay in a pile on an old couch on the mezzanine of the Chinese restaurant

While upstairs they ate at clear glass tables

And a light rain fell outside

Where

Hundreds of plants strung and draped along the clotheslines

as alive as we are

Swayed toward one another—leave, stem, and root reaching out

As though they had been forced to live as

Aerialists on high wires

When their hearts belonged to

The deep blue sea.