Hope

What does hope feel like?
A real pine scent from a dripping sap
A cabin! We could live there! Mom!
Do you have an evening chill?

Is it dark already? Is it all darkness
out there…
so monochrome, all gets lost in contrast
shadows everywhere, moving? Is it all moving?!

Let’s stay inside near the fire!
Warmth reflects wooden, natural
Let’s play inside and hear songs.
Sweet dreams return awkward, graceful

themes
The sun rises, and two bright windows
Now look!
sky-filled greens

Image credit: Closeup of white pine sap oozing from a gash through the bark and cambian layer of the trunk in the Olympic National Park (Washingtion, 1970), Environmental Protection Agency.