As a Poet….

This is how I feel as a Poet – my job is to love Earth and to raise the “invisible” (those things that most folks have forgotten to pay attention to) into visibility, and “learning to be astonished”. Wonder and curiosity and love. And joy! I adore Mary Oliver because she does this so well

How to make friends in the wild

to cover her (after a Zuni song)

bond – a song from the animal people

When you make an effort to connect with the natural world (that’s where we are from, after all, and we do not survive without it), you are welcomed, and you feel amazing….

Earth, October