Gaia

What the dolphins didn’t tell us 

Was how much Gaia loves

The creatures sitting in her lap.

She never pushes clams, dolphins or men away.

She never says, “You’ve wronged me,”

She never shunts her children in a corner

All places on her lap

Are for bathing flesh in sunshine.

She is the tree who sends her fruit

Nothing, nothing, nothing but grace and love.

She is the tender one

Who purifies her heart with wind and lightening

And receives the Sun with open hands,

Unclenched and unafraid.

Elliott Robertson

 Philadelphia

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