you this wilderness

you this wilderness

the pavement steams in the summer rainyou dance barefootwith the earthworms and the siltnight jasmine wending on the windyou float under the Milky Waynaked in a geothermal hot pondfar from the nearest streetlamp

your strides plunge deep into the crusted snowthe cold and ice sting your cheeks aliveas Orcas, slow and deliberate,arc and crest above the waterat the bottom of the world

Your hunger is nature alsoYou bite into a ripe mangoLet the juice drip down your facePluck berries, still warm, direct from the vineEat your fillAnd tear into meat with your canine teethIt tastes of your own blood, salty and dark

You run because you canFeeling the panting and beating of your own fierce heartThis nature that you areThis wild perfect nature that you are

#sensualnature (for Mark Whitwell Rosalind Atkinson Frederic Champagne Ballario Stacy Butters TenHouten Amy Elizabeth Bankoff) #heartofyoga#youarenature #poems