FLEXIBLE MIND (for Rob Lewis)

by Paul Nelson

FLEXIBLE MIND
(for Rob Lewis)

is rooted
in a place.

Most any
place.

THE SECRETARY
of
TRANSPIRATION

knows:

“Water begets water,
soil is the womb,
and vegetation
the midwife”

before he plants
a future cloud
in the ground
of his bioregion.

Flexible
as water.

Savvy as the crows
ruin lawns
with beaks
hunting
European chafer

beetle grubs.

Crow sushi.

Wily mind
flexible
as}
a
CROW.

3:36 pm PST
N.9.2020