Vow

No matter what happens,
if I have any power at all in this life,
I refuse to let my children grow up
deprived of the smell
of the natural world.
I vow
that the scent and signature of plants,
the aroma of dirt,
and fragrance of wild water,
will be their first
olfactory association

with self,

with source,

with safety and sacred,

with home.