Cultivated Joy

Untamable uncertainty each day,
untamable ecstasy of the sun,
of earth on earth I lean into the earth
that supports me underfoot, overhead

relation's more delicate than I thought,
but so am I, indelicate to say
that earth's delicate, that its endurance
as I know it is subject to limits

we live together, this earth and myself,
but we are mortal at diff…