EARTHKEEPING NEWS
A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY

Volume Thirteen, Number Two
Spring 2004

Only the winds of spring
Can open the anemone
Wrote Pliny

Wind Flowers

Windflower
Mayflower
Nimbleweed
Anemone quinquefolia
The wind god's
Name in spring

Five white petals
Three-part leaves —
The ancients picked the
Chanting prayers

Help us to protect these waters
These wild lands you open on
Instill in us
  The powers
  To contain the ooze of mines
The excrement of need

Protect these
Aquifers and springs
  Of highland rock
The breath of winds
We blossom by

Walt Franklin
From Earth Prayers From Around the World
Edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon.