Earth and Sky

This morning

gowns 

of green spruce

rise into the ash.

Cattail seeds

drift

from the edge

of the pond.

A hawk 

soars

into the mist

circling the rise.

We take the land

like 

it's ours.

Like we are

earth and sky 

and rain.

Like we are the

end

or beginning.

(c) Jan Darrow 2022

Photo:Pixabay