For Such is the Nature of Earth

Water or woods 
share you your haven
Swim Submerge and rise 
to the mystery of Air

Where cotton tree seed pollen
Rides like the fairies

Oh I am so grateful for the rocks
Here is one almost completely round
Here is another 
Speckled salt and pepper

The wind displays the trees like Lace
And the branches of trees make a music
Like stiff vertical drums and the leaves violins

Down the road my little dog
Does not notice the rabbit
Who is motionless
One finger of a great hand

That took the void and the darkness
 and made
Layers of life with light and dirt and blades of grass

In the season summer
Even inside the city
Grass grows in concrete
And yes planted flowers

And if it is all paved over and lost to great great sorrow
I promise it will begin again

For such is the nature of earth
We ride her
Amidst a million stars