Holding Up The Sky - Emily Marie Bording

[Larry Robinson]

Holding Up The Sky 


We women who walk the earth
petaled with phlox and rhododendrons,
delight in flushing out its beauty

We women are fields of purple daisies
gathered in crystal vases,
singing the virtues of sunshine

Summer is all a ruckus;
squirrel’s pitching walnuts, a clarinet and robin duet,
a whistling bamboo and howling dogs too

We women have extraterrestrial ears
tuned to stellar pulses,
resonating in our veins

We women have meandering muses
drawn to barnyard scents, 
and orchards - laden with poetry

Where hens cackle all day,
proud of their creations
made fresh from scratch

We women travel light,
when our eggs are all gone
love keeps us moving 

On we climb
guided by sisterly sherpas, 
who have been to where we’re going

Above the Redwood spires  
diamonds - set in blue,
crown our heads each night
 
We women are living circles,
some fixed - some wandering
tethered - only by our imagination

We women hold each other up
and let the sky 
rest on our shoulders

	- Emily Marie Bording
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