Today i am thankful for morning frost
touched by sunlight and sparkling
on lawns and fields I am thankful too
for you and the warmth provided to my feet
inside ordinary socks and shoes and the way
the music of your voice enters my ears
and warms my heart leaving this planet of ours
spinning (if only slightly) more easily;
and i will consider how the world is good
difficult and good and how a lifetime
is both too short and too long
and how the injured heart cannot heal but
as researchers in Sweden have discovered
the muscle of our disadvantaged organ also can
and does slowly replenish itself Today
when the bigness of the sky asks whoever
is standing beneath it are you ready
the gray trees drowsing and temporarily losing
the last of their burnt sienna leaves will say yes
and you will say yes and i will say yes too
Cover Art by Jack Freedman
