It is time to know
our place in the world.
We can see it now as it is,
as it has always been.
We hid it from our eyes –
it’s wild and stormy reaches,
it’s  vast and empty spaces
the land, fertile and  deep
in eons of undisturbed soil.

We held up a mirror to our faces
and saw a world filled with us
and it seemed good.
Now it is the eighth day
and the world is calling
us back to what it was
and has never been other.
It is closing it’s green
enfolding arms around us
and we will empty ourselves
in the roots of the world
that is being born again.

Portland, Oregon – April 22, 2020.  Earth Day