To Be at Home
I am at home with winter I understand the thin Determined trees, and all the calm, Bare fields and I are kin. I am at home with winter, And I am glad to share The dull gray days of waiting, The cold, unfruitful air. All hearts must master silence Before they learn to sing. Must […]
Dawn
I have seen the dawn begin With a thread of lavender Hinting, to my leafless sight, There is something more than night. I have seen the dawn begin With a sky of scarlet fire Declaring, high above each tall Leafy tree, that day is all. Whether that receiving ray Shines with great or little power […]
Supplication
God, be kind to crooked things To wrenched old trees, misshapen and awry . . . Let small birds nestle in their leaves, let rain And sunlight, and blue mercies of the sky Fall, in tender recompense for pain Upon them softly. Let their gnarled boughs know The bliss of blossoms sheltered in their shade […]