Shed

Shed.
The lighter you are
The higher you get.

Bird Nesting

O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree,

Eager and laughing, as in all our play,

To see the eggs where, in the nest, they lay,

But silent fell before the mystery.

For, one brief moment there, we understood

By sudden sympathy too fine for words

That we were sisters to the brooding birds

And part, with them, in God’s great motherhood.

Ellis Parker Butler

"Some nights, stay up till dawn...."

"Some nights, stay up till dawn

As the moon sometimes does for the sun.

Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way

Of a well, then lifted out into light.

Something opens our wings.  Something

Makes boredom and hurt disappear.

Someone fills the cup in front of us.

We taste only sacredness."

Wet grass

Wet grass,

Newly cut,

Freshness, like

dew-bursts.