After The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry First published in Turning Ten and other Stories of Life * , November 2025 In this wilding world as pompous weeds choke the hope of merciful folk, in which fear takes root over the carcases of buried books, fertilised with othering, I wake. Usually I lie, uneasy, and prepare my excuses for a despair-affected day… but from a poem crafted in tribute to Grace, I remember there is another way. I flip the bedsheets from my overheatin