The evening air is sweet-
scent of raked weeds
and walking on the land,
carrying water
Ravens and robins and blackbirds
fill the gloaming with their joy
This is better than comfort -
The warmth through working,
the togetherness that stretches out wide,
and these birds, this land, this sky.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 8, 2020
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