step into a circle...

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find? — Lew Welch, Ring of Bone

nature.

How is it — I said to myself, that I can possibly have lived so long outside nature, without identifying myself with her? All things live, all things have motion, all things correspond. The majestic rays emanating from myself to others, traverse without obstacle, the infinite chain of created things. — Marsden Hartley

values

I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. — Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold

change.

toes brushing a sky
blue to grey blue to grey
heavy with water and cities and sleeping birds

we walk slower
umbrellas neatly packed
eyes up
humming breathing palms sweating

to dodge the drops
the growing dancing drops
mixed with feathers and skyscrapers and dreams

heart opens closes
beats and drums and twists
fists to palms to fists
blinking and staring and darkness

opening and closing
all waiting to catch slivers of a sky
heavy with water and cities and sleeping birds