Our Days

These are our days,

this is what we’re doing —

there isn’t more

than the work at hand

and the strength that meets it

and the patience of

one task in front of the next,

taking the steps available

These are our days,

this is what we’re doing

as swallows dart around the site

and sun and clouds take turns

and the grass has grown silver tips

that sheen with shifting winds

and the garden is growing

much slower than our eager observation,

slow as our work

which will progress anyway,

in its own time.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 26, 2019