Creation Myth

There is a creation myth

that tells of one of two brothers placing

sacred

sound in the earth

placing vibration in the earth so

that when people lose the sacred they

listen

My ear is pressed to soil

I am dug in, planted,

rooting

listening

to worms bury and water saturate

and animals furrow and roots crawl further

and down and in and through and

There is a creation myth

that sound is sacred

I hear it

when I hear

nothing

The nothing of soil

of breeze

the nothing of plant

of leaf

of myself in land

planted, dug in,

listening

rooting

to nothing

to the sacred