"subtle, various, sensitive, you are the skin"
May you put your bare feet on the Earth today.
Ode to Dirt
by Sharon Olds
from Odes, Penguin 2016
Creative Prompt
1)
Listen to the video below: “Ode to Dirt” read from a handmade tiny book as the artist turns its pages.
2)
What is something whose beauty you once overlooked? Where do you see beauty now, that you didn’t in the past?
Note: Video was created by weiyu, a psychotherapist in Australia who runs Many Arts Studio and graciously gave permission for its inclusion.
Art: Julien Dupré, "Live in the country," French, 1851-1910, Public Domain
This is everything! Thank you for this!
Raised in the part of this country with rich deep black dirt, I still remember its musky smell and the wriggly worms that joined every damp crumbly handful. I now live in the land of sand and cacti. The small rocks are brown and many in each handful of dry reddish dusty dirt. No judging, I love them both. Thank you for the loving focus on the dirt beneath our feet.