earth note 55

release our literary wetlands
let the wild grasses sprout
wild rice peat root anchors
our faces
bouncing back off the water
leaving an imprint
on the sky

--- e b bortz

(published in Jawbone 1997)
(published in Three Rivers Bioneers, Oct 2010)
(published in earth notes and other poems, Least Bittern Books, 2015)