autumn's to-do list

Go to Italy, buy a fridge magnet, read Of Mice and Men, sing in a choir, make myself strong, pray, live now.

to know the earth as poetry

Some of us don't want

to be tough alpha leaders.

Some of us just want to write

and wander

the garden

and breathe in the sky

and nourish and nurture

and quietly create

new pathways

and live our

lives as our art.

To know the earth 

as poetry.

(Victoria Erickson)