I've come home after wandering in deserts of all those possibilities I've come to a place that makes no sense on paper it is illogical probably reckless even foolish at my great age to move a thousand miles to a cottage and garden in which angels dance with irrepressible joy
I stand barefoot on warming ground knowing I no longer have dreams only this world bloody and undone as afterbirth a creation too imperfect in its perfection to allow for dreams of peace
resisting all nonsense of calendars and charts I navigate my small craft of hope and magnolia bloom toward all things green and growing I have set my course for Spring and life in all its wonder
For what little peace there is in the world I am grateful for courage and hope and love I am grateful for daffodils on the first of March I am grateful for little more than enough I am grateful for lost souls and steady friends and sweethearts and angels in disguise I am grateful
step away just for a moment lean back into the sun rest your head gently on the sky all the worlds open waiting for you to step away and run down the meadow path into the greening day
in the kitchen junk drawer with old pens and chip clips or mason jars on dusty cellar shelves used for summers fireflies or falls pear preserves or faded shoe boxes shoved under the bed where treasures of sea shells with bits of pale green sea glass are kept where will all this daylight be saved from one year to the next?
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