Kneel before your reason of petition
As knights kneel before a noble
Embrace those in proximity
Of your ascending ascending aorta
Touch warm palm paws and cross legs
In a chain of buoyant humanity
As we begin our creed.
Let us not
Masquerade this petition in
Protection of the petitioned
And those petitioning.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Women’s faces.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Animal tails.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Elderly bodies.
Gracious Jane
Oathful Elizabeth
Meadowy Lee
Daughter of Helen and John
Sister of Margaret, Mary, Carolyn, Kay and James
Middled by unchoice.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Roots bedded in Skokie,
Northbrook and Ottawa
Illinois
Travelers trust her direction and adroitity
Behind the wheel of great Pace
Women saved by healing hands
Pulled from swollen darkness and maple splinters.
Women awake in bedded shelter of lives diminished
To femalions, but she will save them from death
Old men loved by an immeasurable heart and angelic smile
All close to her touched by a harmonious occurrence
On the street in a grave in a cage on a flower
Jane Elizabeth Lee
With gay desire, this ass
embly calls upon for your protection.
Gaia!
Earthly Goddess!
Gaia!
Heavenly bosomed
Defined of awesomeness
All knowing and Atomless.
Gaia
Roll over in
Happy awakening at our need.
Let living and
Non-living regulate
The surface of life.
Gaia
Shoot Blazing Stars
Out the cracked bottom
Bounce o’ Prairie Phlox
Bounce o’ uneven petals
Til’ She loves you.
Gaia
Rise out of rocks
Starved or Tall
Split Lake
Flush out your grime
And signal your arrival
Skipping rocks
Down the river
Until they rest finely on the bottom
Of a lake.
Gaia
Protect the heroine of
Triumph and Love.
Earthly Goddess
Protect her from homeless metastatic invaders
Protect her from adipose tissue
Protect her from perverted growths in her gonads
Protect her from atypical, btypical, ctypical depression
Protect her from tumors in her lungs
Protect her from Alzheimer's
Protect her from celluar demons of her future
For they are all unwanted.
Earthly Goddess
Protect her from gruesome falls
For her two-wheeled pastime is centered on balance
And yellow pick-ups are targets of canary hunters.
Protect the natives of these rocks and rivers
For she knows who slept here first.
Protect her spirit from those that wish to damage
For not all who wander, find good fortune.
Protect her from shame of toppling Jenga towers
For the trash that spills from her mouth would crawl back in.
Protect her from homophobes, philophobes and Janophobes
For they hurt her loved ones and still she tries to save them.
Protect her love from saddness and saddness from deafeat
For she puts family before others and others before herself.
Earthly Goddess
Protect her from sinkholes, hailstorms and wildfires
For Midwest plains are bear traps of the grandest kind.
Protect her from famine and oil spills
For they would sicken her spirit, body and hair.
Protect her from gatherings of nonsense
For the green bean casserole is gooier than usual.
Earthly Goddess
Protect the beauty snaking her mind
For her compassion is her salvation.
Protect her cheek from tears
For Earthly beauty is slipping away.
Protect the chipmunks and bald eagles
For there cannot be the mighty without the small.
Protect the wolves and snails
For every animal that runs, another will scoot.
Protect the canines, for they have a special place in her.
Protect Sprite, her non-mythical companion
Black, white and jumpy, stocky and wet and spoiled.
Earthly Goddess
Protect her from past nightmares and cerebral struggles.
Let the Giant Irish Elk, noble and gone, swiftly carry her
From yellow atmosphere to purple sea.
Protect her fantastical shrubbery
For Butterfly Milkweed is small and orange
To attract the wings of otherworldly beauty.
Protect New England Asters
For they are the fireworks of horticultural celebration.
Protect the Cup Plant
For its height and imitation of the sun make bubblers
for small buzzers.
Protect ladders into the sky
For each stands tall in their field.
Protect the Red Oak
For its climbable branches and broccoli strut.
Protect the Black Oak
For it explodes in all directions towards the sun.
Protect the White Oak
For it is untamed and fertile.
Earthly Goddess
Protect Janie from thoughts of sorrow,
Words of misfortune and troubling calls.
Protect her from erratic toasters,
Revolting wires and closing doors.
Protect her from broken chairs, jagged screens
And hidden potholes.
Protect her from large mole rats, unwelcome bats
And moldy 3-layer cake.
Protect her from aching knees, woozy ears
And fuzzy vision.
Protect her from poor pleads, silly soliloquies
And useless utterances.
Gaia
Praise you who awoke in our plea.
Praise you for considering our creed.
Praise you for protecting another protector.
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