The Word Within Us

There are moments when the veil seems
almost to lift and we understand what
the earth is meant to mean to us….then the Word is within us,
and the Book is put away.”
With “the Book put away and the Word within us.

Mary Oliver

Ode to Dirt

Dear dirt, I am sorry I slighted you, I thought you were only the background for the leading characters—the plants and animals and human animals.