Winter roots snuggle down darkly into the homely earth
Skeletal branches stretch up to sombre skies in supplication
Blood and oxygen similarly circulate well-trodden beating pathways within your body
Embedding these surroundings deeply within your psyche and your soul
From this land you come
To this earth you will return, again and again and again
Following constant tracks like the blue veins coursing under your skin
Each location enfolded with memories of the past
One laid over another and another and another, palimpsests
Here is your father walking with you, towering above
Instilling a love for exactly where you are and where you have been together
Here are friends in childhood, exploring, discovering, finding a place in the world
Walking by your side
At certain points of your journeying
Constantly conjuring echoes of remembrances
Your own private archaeology of the here and now and the used-to-be
And still will be, in your head and in your heart
You bury your face in the wetness of the mossy forest floor and deeply inhale
Taking the essence of this place inside of you
Becoming here and here becoming you