(Photo credit: Irene Mei, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Earth’s green skin is velvet today
With the mist on it
Crushed velvet with her children’s pawprints
Some days it is silk
With young winds rippling
Earth who gave us birth
Mother
The first and the last and the greatest of mysteries
I lie with my face in her skin
Bonded
Adoring
Anguished.
