Safety ?

bees cover the current bush

orange, yellow, blue
red, prayer flags
shredded

birds dance

dog poop
everywhere, I think
stubbed toes, sour dough that did
not rise today,  soup too salty,
or sweet
or not

mud covered they do not
run towards me but laugh
threateningly
six feet away from a
hug

there will be no
mud on me

I am
safe

and now there
is rain
my heart feels it

all

feels it all.

gloria fern May 2020