Home in the Woods

Oh home in the woods,

I am here as one hungry to eat,

one with no bread

in the garden of trees

in a place where the stone wishes to blossom.

Bullets have gone to sleep

and with effort the water

flows the way it once did.

Here, in winter, there is enough

dry wood for heat

and I enter smiling, forgetting our history.

Can you bring me to the place

where pollen is now the light

and we remember the original song?

Can you keep me

here? Can you unharm me?