Volunteer

Traveling on the wind

carrying credentials,

abandoning anything

strangling potential,

Galloping, inhabiting

nothing inessential,

scattering, wondering,

“Am I incidental?”

Sprout here another year, volunteer.

Scavenging, salvaging,

rationing for winter.

It’s challenging, practicing

living like beginners,

But it’s happening, it’s dazzling,

protections start to splinter,

imagining ravishing

springing from within her.

Sprout here another year, volunteer.