August Winter Night
Tell me not the earth cannot breathe.
I heard it sigh when the warm front hit.
The crickets sang to the amber breeze --
(Too foolish to know their time was short).
In the shuffle -- of untroubled hooves,
The whuffle -- of velvet whiskers, I heard it.
The ex-
hal-
ation of the land.
Saying, “Come. Come to me.
Breathe in my sighs. My smells. My life.
And be.”