Big As Texas

(March 2023. The Texas era begins with my first visit to Lockhart to see Josh and meet the Earthship team. Bluebonnets springing up early along the sides of the road as far as the eye can see. Little did I know then that Lockhart would become such a home. This is also one of the first poems written in the big tan birch notebook, since Mackenzie gifted it to me for my birthday in December, and since the brown and black notebooks were running out of space. The new notebook allows for / encourages longer line lengths than the smaller notebooks or than my phone notes.)

Big As Texas

Raw land thick with potential unfurling endless as grass
Release all collars from the hunger of the world for itself
The growth of the livin fire of God treadin through shadow
Leavin beaten paths like dendrites of golden ashes.

Now I may be lettin the pulpit get to me— forgive a man most his passion—
But I am willing to bet my life that God loves gettin bigger,
That maybe growing bigger is what the universe is for,
And what everything really wants is everything’n more.