Tiptoe Through the Warming

The toes of Michelangelo's David are musculinely strong, second toe a touch longer than the big toe as befits a gifted man. This is how I walk the earth - in Michelangelo's toes, gripping the soil just hard enough to keep it steadily waltzing around the sun in its Galilean galleon. My toes tread carefully among the growing leaves of grass and upward-glancing, jogging centipedes; carefully on this oblate earth with all our growing growing woes to keep my footprint small, I walk on my toes.