Regrowth

January 8th 2024

arriving at the garden gate

a glimmer through the panels

reveals a type of growing pains

along the river channels

and crouching by a wooden chair

a look upon the soil

unveils a healing disrepair

through growth in past turmoil

arising from the earth becomes

a delicate fiddlehead

from where it could not overcome

for it lived among the dead

disintegrating ashes rise

and leaves begin to quiver

for the fire looming in the sky

was no match for the river