African Rain Forest Experience

04/10/2026

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23/09/2026

18/08/2026

We are not just standing on the earth.
We are rising from it.

The salt in our blood remembers oceans.
Iron drifts through us like a red river, star-born, stone-bred.
Calcium holds our bones upright
with the patience of mountains.

Breath enters -
not as air alone
but as leaf-gift, green exhale,
the soft astonishment of trees
moving through our lungs.

My ribs are branches opening.
My pulse is tidal.
Under the skin, forests hum -
fungal threads of thought,
rooted and reaching.

When I kneel to the soil
it is not devotion to something outside me.
It is a homecoming.

The earth is not beneath our feet.
It is inside our breathing.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill


Art by Alexa Carson