Of Connection to Nature

A tanka series

Author’s photo

Stepped onto back porch
Naked divine innocence
God’s image create
Tanka starts to write itself
True power of creation

I stepped out to piss
Kyle taught me true freedom
Return to Nature
My waste fertilizes grass
I am starting to digress

Stepped onto back porch
Songbirds singing morning calls
Venture forth did I
Felt blades of grass twixt my toes
Morning dew lubricates, grounds

As Adam stood I
And as innocent Eve too
Gloriously bare
Not even our loins deer clothed
Enjoying Eden’s garden

In that moment felt
Both freedom and connection
Life’s paradoxes
Of all the Philosophers
Rousseau the most enlightened?

Poet’s Notes:

The phrase “in the image of God” and the creation allegory of “Adam and Eve” have each fascinated me and my…