Flying over clearcut hills - Monnie Reba Efross

[Larry Robinson]

Flying over clearcut hills

brown wounds scraped raw
don’t require bandaids, antibiotics
Mama Earth heals herself
slowly, by the measure of human time
confident in her immune system
inviting exposure to nutrient sun, water, 
coyote scat
Tiny trees and grass stubble earth skin
She always wins in the end
not by force or violence
tho she can thunder and quake 
but more by
simply and patiently growing life
over and over again

just because she can

	- Monnie Reba Efross

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/poetrylovers/attachments/20140805/09325c75/attachment.html>