signs

there’s a soybean field

near my house

i walk to it 

some mornings

the soybeans are brown now

but the field is surrounded

by cottonwood trees

their leaves glisten 

like golden 

hummingbird wings

i see deer tracks too

at the edge 

of the field

“I hold not with the pessimist that all things are ill, nor with the optimist that all things are well.  All things are not well, but all things shall be well, because this is God’s world. “   ~Robert Browning