this summer's fullness

This summer fullness

of leaf and stalk,

flower and fruit...

abundance

feeding birds and us,

seems so far from

the cold white barren

that melted before,

and now hints a quiet promise

of its return.

I live here and now,

and in the past and future,

as nature too,

with mulch and seeds,

and migrating birds,

and shorter days

and cooler nights.