goddess #47

a beaver dam dressed in green - 

strawberries, blueberries, moss, and ferns.

the lake three feet above where i stand with an eerie sense

of the built and the unbuilt.

earlier mineral hard land gave way to delicate new ferns, then rich forest humus . . 

then opened to this vista of water, lilies, and trees.

i am touched by tiny winged beings 

and remember how many of them there are compared to us -

some incredible number of times our biomass-

and i can only stop
and breathe it all in

as an inchworm makes her way across my page.