Worship the earth.
Treasure the land
on which you stand.
Become one
with the natural world
all around you
if only in the parks
where nature is allowed to roam,
caged.

Respect the creatures
and the plants
and the moss and the microbes
and all the yucky stuff
that surrounds you
when you let it.
When it’s safe.

Follow the sun
and moon and stars
and keep your car top down
so you can appreciate the wind,
air rapidly rushing through hair
and rain and snow pelting you
along with insects atomized
while racing down roads.

Keep the earth with you
and love it
and appreciate it
in all its iterations
but
at day’s end
be sure to wash up
since the earth is so very dirty.