Kerri Shying R # 69 Birth Day

Birth day

It’s time to thank your mother

thank the old ones

thank the stones

the water air

someone breathed you in

then out

before the day you birthed

crushed you into ochre

dabbed you on warm skin

the land lived fine

without you

fire burned trees

grew the sky it moved with stars

you never knew

keep going look back

lightly the world is made

of all this too