October 8th 2025
Barbre Callister
barbremaycall24@berkeley.eduBarbre Callister is a writer & a UC Berkeley student whose work explores the interconnection between land, memory, and renewal. Rooted in a deep respect for the natural world, her writing reflects the cycles of growth, loss, and transformation that bind all living things. In her poem I stand with you, she honors the shared breath between humans and nature, a quiet meditation on surrender, regeneration, and belonging to the earth.
I stand with you
inhaled in rhythm,
our breath a quiet promise
carried in the cradle of time.
You bow, old stem,
not in defeat,
but in sacred surrender
to let your seeds fly free. Once, I too bore fruit.
Now I bend with memory, softened by seasons,
made whole by the letting go. Carbon, dust, and light — we will become
their breaths again.
Remember me
as I remember you.
Breathe, One, two, three, four
