Listless

Let this be a balm for my aching heart

Let me see the beauty of blue jays on leafless branches

Telling me that I am more than what I assume myself to be

Let me comprehend the nature of feeling more

Than what is written on my own heart

Collective experience of all that is — is entirely inescapable

Why don’t we stop pretending that our fields of green and wheat

Do not affect each other

Because I know that your smile brings me warmth

I know that how I do anything is how I do everything

And I know that our interdependence is what will save our minds from rot

Day Two