New language arises
in the differentiation of essential oils,
in the attention to small details —
freshness and sequence and timing

There are places in this noticing
for gratitude to take hold
with confident grip
to entrances too small to see —
thread hairs of its roots
reaching in and changing the ground
with what it brings
and what it calls forth.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 18, 2020