Invocation

Architect of icebergs, snowflakes,
crystals, rainbows, sand grains, dust motes, atoms.
 
Mason whose tools are glaciers, rain, rivers, ocean.
 
Chemist who made blood
of seawater, bone of minerals in stone, milk
 
of love. Whatever
 
You are, I know this,
Spinner, You are everywhere, in All The Ever-
Changing Above, whirling around us.
 
Yes, in the loose strands,
in the rough weave of the common
 
cloth threaded with our DNA on the hubbed, spoked
Spinning Wheel that is this world, solar system, galaxy,
 
universe.
 
Help us to see ourselves in all creation,
and all creation in ourselves, ourselves in one another.
 
Remind those of us who like connections
made with similes, metaphors, symbols
all of us are, everything is
already connected.
 
Remind us as the oceans go, so go we. As the air goes, so go we.
As other life forms on Earth go, so go we.
 
As our planet goes, so go we. Great Poet,
who inspired In The Beginning was The Word . . . ,

 
edit our thoughts so our ethics are our politics, 
and our actions the afterlives of our words. 


From Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Used with permission. 

 

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