Ginkgo Biloba
By Bex Hainsworth
Living fossil, unchanged
for 200 million years.
Survivor of cataclysm,
roots clutch bactrosaurus
bones. They outlasted
the animals that once
dispersed their seeds.
Ginkgos adapt, persist.
Some trees are over
1,500 years old.
This year has been hard,
but the earth is urging
me to endure.
Bex Hainsworth
Bex Hainsworth is a poet and teacher based in Leicester, UK. Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Magma, and Poetry Ireland Review. She is the author of two pamphlets: Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written Off Publishing, 2025).
Photo credit: Tao Yuan
