Every day is Earth Day 

Every day is Earth day 

 and always has been 

 the only place we 

 have ever known a day 

 or night or anything 

 else at all 

 these years, four billion, 

 two million, 200,000, 

 5,000, twenty fourteen
 hooray for our heavenly 

 home, beautiful beyond 

 beauty, alive beyond 

 aliveness, abundant
 for all 

 and yet, and yet 

 we humans divide and 

 hoard and pillage and rape 

 and harm our mother, 

 our own body;
 but now is waking up time 

 making up time 

 time to cherish and conserve 

 for the next 1,000, million, 

 billion years or so 

 yes  

 let's  

                     (page 8 in my book Earthling Love: Living Poems)