A few thank yous

and thank you, too, this knuckleheaded heart, this pelican heart,

this gap-toothed heart flinging open its gaudy maw

to the sky, oh clumsy, oh bumblefucked,

oh giddy, oh dumbstruck,

oh rickshaw, oh goat twisting

its head at me from my peach tree’s highest branch…

A few thank yous given by poet, teacher and gardener Ross Gay, in his Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude.

More than a few thank yous given to you Ross, for giving us the Bloomington Community Orchard, for giving us these words, and for teaching me to how write the Earth and how to put my first seeds in the ground.