It takes
so little 
to make
me happy:
An hour
of planting
cucumbers
squash
tomatoes
is
an 
hour 
filled
with
gold.

We have all lost
much 
of what
we thought
was
safely
tucked away:
To
a dragon
called
stock market
called
Wall Street
called
the economy
called 
despair
&
wrong choices
around
the globe.

Still,
to be rich
in this way:
Plentiful
seeds
of cucumber
& squash
lettuce
& peas
to plant;
warm sun 
on my
cheek,
is to miss
the anxiety
of loss—
its icy
silver
claw—
almost
entirely.