Friday, May 31, 2024

Returning Home

Cool air, sky blue and white

clouds, a hint of gray on their undersides.

 

I have returned to grass to cut,

plants to plant in the box garden.

 

Amazed at how the body shivers at the end

of May what would be ignored in December.

 

I am a creature who knows the touch of nature,

who gets accustomed to the weather,

 

who is surprised when the end of May does not

feel like the beginning of June.

 

I think how easily I make expectations,

how often they’re not met

 

how I am to hold what I am given

nothing more, nothing less.


-Byron Hoot

 hootnhowlpoetry.com


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