the worst dream -- a storm rolls in, all bolt-cold, fierce, drowns our peat in what helps huckleberries and your leaves unfurl leaving me, root-bound bog butter for some scientist to find and you, so tall
You were a fourth born, snow-born, breeze Wild as the first sight of a western scene And I was surprised, by the furious snow As I didn’t expect you so early that Fall
When one man says "All the little things" He is looking into the eyes of her In love and drunk on summers wine Before the winters fall As if the endless summers were yet alive on this earth
When in reality "All of the little things" We do, and say, and act to be Are but seasons we have aligned with time Are but dusty feelings Stirring occasionally in a field full of tempered streams