Sunday, September 20, 2020

dirt

Reading the last book

the poet’s work collected late

the garden’s harvest 

green and gold long after

the gardener goes to dirt,

the careful, loving labor from

friends and family tending the wishes for

words and papers left behind,

seeing only growing things

seeds and leaves and love

that living well allots.

Art is only the shared ache of

seeing something you need to show,

the eye of the scrub jay,

the wing of the crow.

The joy of being where you’re wanted

when it’s where you want to be.

The guitars and the galleries,

the journey always ending with

the beauty finding 

the way back home. 

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