[Earth, I Thank You]

[Earth, I Thank You]
Anne Spencer

Earth, I thank you

for the pleasure of your language
You’ve had a hard time
bringing it to me
from the ground
to grunt thru the noun
To all the way
feeling     seeing     smelling     touching
--awareness
I am here!

From:  Black Nature:  Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Edited by Camille t. Dungy, ©2009 by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA