Rewild yourself by caroline mellor
There are places in you
Where thousands of bright, tiny flowers
Open each morning to the sun
In meadows as vast as the sky.
Innocence by linda hogan
There is nothing more innocent
than the still-unformed creature I find beneath soil,
neither of us knowing what it will become
in the abundance of the planet.
Clearing by Martha Postlewaite
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
Frog singing by jeannette armstrong
Have you every heard the singing of the stars? The frogs have. "Frog Singing" by Jeannette Armstrong.
Redwoods by dorianne laux
You had to have
been there to know such joy,
fear intermingled, my limbs
tingling: ancient, mute.
Making Fire From bone by stephanie mines
Let the ash turn to gold now, Mother,
For the children of the future.
The Well Rising by William Stafford
The well rising without sound,
the spring on a hillside,
the plowshare brimming through deep ground
everywhere in the field—