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In this article art is used as inquiry to ask powerful questions, untangle paradoxes, and help us navigate loss grief in the Anthropocene. Several central questions are considered animated through narrative poetry. How do we live poetically (Leggo, 2005) a world that need exploit order survive? engage more-than-human full of ambiguity paradox? might nature become teacher or mentor (Jickling et al., 2018), what anthropocentric barriers face? can stories poems facilitate holistic expression place-based connection? As elucidate wonder cottonwood, mentorship ponderosa, Carl Leggo (2004, 2005, 2012, 2016, 2019a, 2019b) serves guide for artful attending hopeful imagination living poetically. Joanna Macy’s (Macy & Johnstone, 2012; Macy Brown, 2014) work reconnects Leggo’s curriculum joy offer parallel paths hope so find our way