Here the Earth slept,
aging with each
exhalation of wet shoreline,
dirty and gripped
 with cracked fingernails,
 arthritic crevasses
of its own brown-skinned
body burnt as clay,
green with the sweat
 of oozing lizards,
 of immortal molds,
 of photosynthetic centuries
where hominids tattooed
their violence
and bled
through their dust.

2021-04-06