Meghan Ochs

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Environmental Work

Image: “Pocahontas State Park” by Meghan Ochs

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  • 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

  • <3