Sycamore

Poor tree ...with good reason to feel more sick, it has had to put up with so more than I have.
I really should have put a bet on on Monday ... trouble is, it was always a dead cert. At least it was extremely brief as it started raining.
Very glad it’s Friday with a long weekend.
Spoke to my brother who’s broken his arm. Can’t remember when we last spoke.

A Dream of Trees - Mary Oliver

There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little way from every troubling town,
A little way from factories, schools, laments.
I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,
With only streams and birds for company,
To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.
And then it came to me, that so was death,
A little way away from everywhere.

There is a thing in me still dreams of trees.
But let it go. Homesick for moderation,
Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away.
If any find solution, let him tell it.
Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation
Where, as the times implore our true involvement,
The blades of every crisis point the way.

I would it were not so, but so it is.
Who ever made music of a mild day?