OH WILD LIFE

Oh Wild Life,

please take me

as your lover.

I am clumsy, yet

for your lessons

I do hunger.

Undomesticate

these tired bones

and melt the strings

of efficient habit

that entrap

my tender

heart

and have bound

my soul to roads

of ruts and dust

where sister

death herself

does not exist

and my feet

forget to touch

blessings freely

rendered here

on such green

and holy ground.