It’s all about gladness
while the stinkweed
keeps right on stinkin’
and being stinkweed
and the skunk cabbage
trundles on and on
as skunk cabbage

We have always held
the pathways of earth
in our cupped palms,
passed from one
magician and acolyte
to the next without 
a drop of being lost.

-- Ayaz Daryl Nielsen