Earth Day: Evening walk on the Serpentine Dike


Dusk on the dike

Open your nostrils
Receive the fragrance of burst willow buds
Breathe spring-steeped air.

Tread lightly:
Hear your own soft footfalls
Feel them reverberate from soles to crown.

Overhear the cadenced conversations of geese
Flying low over the marshlands
Whoosh of wings audible against air.

Catch the splash of squalling ducks
As they swim, see the perfect vee behind each
Traced on the glass-still water.

Scent coming rain
Feel the first hesitant droplets touch your hair.

Sense elusive memories
Connecting this walk with years of other walks.

Feel beneath the feet
The uneven shape, the wild mud and grass-clad body
Of Earth our Mother – familiar, beloved.
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