Read like a book

All books, nature opened up herself, on a

Branch hanging upon her words, she led me out

From the philosophy of patriarchs

I gave up guilt, I said I’m innocent

And life‘s story wrote, a car pulled up beside

The nature strip and her face said, I’ll give you

The discipline you seek, I know what is

From nature, beheld a teacher in elemental

Discipline, walking on the soil, making

Breath to swim – elemental air, my breath

Is fire – the teacher bearing nature’s gift

To be, O, be disciplined by her whip