Small Mercies

Crispy cucumbers
Fresh tomatoes
Spinach
Picked in the rain
Apples
Sour-sweet
Fragrant herbs
Late blooms
Summer’s gifts
Cherished

Welcome rainstorms
Seed banks fed
Squirrels
Collecting every morsel
They can get
The pond to a birdbath transformed
A season’s end
Quietly savoured

Sunlight dances through thunderclouds
Bright stars hiding in the dark
Daylight valued more than gold
Change lines
Swollen hands
Minor reminders
Happiness captured
More than passing fazes
Tumbling in the grass
Skipping in the dust
Memories of the fun that once was
Constantly celebrated

Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2011-08-21