Environmental Work

Image: “Pocahontas State Park” by Meghan Ochs

• Go out in nature

• Press you hands into the muck

• Squelch your toes in mud

• Feel the cold liquid water seep

• Between the cracks of your soul

• Your heart makes its noise

• Out here, you can unmake quiet

• Believe it to be something loud

• Undeniable, reaching, gorgeous

• Beautiful is the thing you feel

• The way you are in the very moments

• You seek outside your walls

• Wear your colors as your badge of hope

• You have ribbons in your fingertips

• And here is your throne:

• You sit upon glorious morning

• Sunshine peeking through your solar plexus

• Your heart grows with every venture into earth

• You divine her secrets when you dirty yourself

• In mud and rust and blood and water and rain and sun

• You make the world your beautiful pearl

• When you swim in the shores of a horizon

• When you swear you are only here

• To be free

• To love

• To fulfill your destiny

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