To breathe with Serviceberry is to blossom before time,

Where soft white petals arrive in their own quiet rhyme.

Inhale-Petal-as the flutter stirs and sways,

Exhale-Settle-the body finds its steadier ways.

Five pale blossoms appear before leaves have begun,

Teaching the throat and the belly to soften as one.

Silver-backed leaves unfurl with a slow, silken cheer,

While berries ripen from green into purple sincere.

Smooth gray branches keep time through the understory year,

Serviceberry settles the tremble of fear,

And teaches the body the rhythm of here.