Every small step we take

June 19, 2023

Every small step we take on this earth has consequences ....

— from How to Catch a Mole (A Life Lived In Nature) by Mark Hamer

We try to amplify the good that is in the earth, mostly by leaving it alone.

I have too often failed in travels to leave not even footprints, trodding through fields and woods on excursions of wonder

I am, after all, a trace, a destruction machine, laced up from boot to head with eyes shadowed by cap's brim

It's in the pause, in the stop, where reminders become evident when I know I am not nearly enough and still, doing what I can

One poem, I left imprinted in dirt, then sat by in night's storm, watching the wind of the world at work, knowing we are ephemeral ink, fleeting