<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-9dc4a2a7-1ebd-cbeb-69fa-5dbb597e6759"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">Flying over clearcut hills</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">brown wounds scraped raw</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">don’t require bandaids, antibiotics</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">Mama Earth heals herself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">slowly, by the measure of human time</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">confident in her immune system</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">inviting exposure to nutrient sun, water, </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">coyote scat</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">Tiny trees and grass stubble earth skin</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">She always wins in the end</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">not by force or violence</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">tho she can thunder and quake </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">but more by</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">simply and patiently growing life</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">over and over again</span></div><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; ">just because she can</span></span><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-9dc4a2a7-1ebd-cbeb-69fa-5dbb597e6759"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Monnie Reba Efross</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div></div></body></html>