Meaning

With infinite patience

I’m brought round again

to learn the new meanings

which are the old meanings

from before the world began

I will learn them

here in the calm of late afternoon,

here in the rain washed, sun graced moments

when the turkeys wander back

from across the field

and crickets sing softly

and grasshoppers click

This isn’t something

I could ever learn alone,

and the great wonder is,

I don’t have to.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 19, 2019