Without:
the earth works
its way through
another day
Within:
the world thinks
of
another way
toe from toe
to tell, to know
each slip and grip
and furl and curl
without clever cover
I feel every
folded leaf and stem
sink in earth’s laboratory
stride on cracking history
skip round spike-thorn botany
scale mini-mountain geology
step out, step on
to fall
in step