Landscape

Thank you gravity

for your unseen forces

upon me, this earthworm

This stillness of puddle,

Holding steady our landscape

Where we all may meet

To dance upon the soil

Creating our own beat

Worm up from beneath, wriggling

Rain down from sky, swirling

Me grounded with my barefeet, tapping

Thank you light

For your unseen vibration

Penetrating me, this earthworm

Even this murkiness of puddle

Harmonizing our landscape

Where we all may greet

To silently sing with air

Making our own sounding

Puddle collecting her drops, saturating

Worm breathing through skin, surfacing

Me open mouthed with my awe,

exhaling time, surfing

Thank you Spirit

For your unseen influence

Upon me, this earthworm

This puddle forming before me

This Aliveness of landscape

Where we all may manifest

To belong to something

so vast,

so unknowable,

yet so intimate—

As the water & the worm between my toes,

As the worm & me submergent in water,

As my toes & water kissing the earthworm

Thank you dear landscape

offering your infinite seen & unseen

manifestations of being with—

Never alone, always unique

All equally precious