EARTH

Have you touched earth today?

Go smell the soil on your hands,

sink your feet into its minerals.

Listen for the scrub jay call to the hummingbird,

And the hawk call to the sky.

Feel sun warming your hair, your toes, your breasts.

Breathe deep. You are alive in this space.

You are born from this soil,

this rib of life that lays bones at your feet

to gnaw and suck the marrow.

You are as a tree, rooted here.

You are not dirty. This is not unholy ground.

This is the space of belonging.

The bare and natural state of your heart,

connected to earth.