Summer yields abundance  –
the daily vegetables,
the daily herbs,
the daily use of them

The wide swing of the day before me,
the wind that bends these trees,
day after day,
and cools the house

The slow build now
of what will yield later  –
in shade, in fruit,
in magnanimity

All these things breathe
as one, they join hands
in their common purpose,
they knit together to show us all
how we can do it,
how we are one.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 28, 2023