Wednesday, September 4, 2013

dirt haiku


all fruit has grandma
compost fecund ancestor
goo
        slime our mother


i'd rather eat straw
berries than primordial 
stew
         gleet our giver


suckle savories
not pluck rotten cavities
too
        muck our maker


dirt a worm process. 
soils alive! praise be the change
true
         clay our shaker


touching ripe peaches
preferred to swilling earthmold
cruel
         loam our layer


gut of earth, we thank
the damp stagnant mire changing
you
         scat our savior




2 comments:

  1. I want to chant this moving in a circle around a center. What a praise, what an important song! I feel the rhyme/rhythm process so integrated with the sentiments of gratitude and supplication. "Scat our savior" Wow! For how long has that needed to be said and sung?!

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  2. I agree...let's go out into the woods and chant this...and in the cities as well, of course!
    Thanks for touching the darkest place in my heart.

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