**Poetry: Grounding

 Grounding

Stay close to the ground. 

Look for salamanders.

  Listen for the sound

of water.

Remember:

You are 

the one who walks

one foot in front

of the other.

Keep an eye on the children:

they know how to fall-

 

and to return

like springs.

Remember:

You are river too-

frozen 

and longing

for a lingering liquid release.

Look to the elders:

Their limbs know the way,

the well-worn paths of Olympus,

by heart.

Listen. 

The beats of these steps-

palpitations of a universe-

keep time;

the clock-like pulse

steadies;

the pull of gravity

holds you in place,

holds you exactly 

where you belong.