June Stepansky - Exploring happiness #9- Green Things

There were always
green things in my life:
small wild flowers,
Lilac bushes,
arboretums
where lovers walked
and children came to play,
forests edging round a lake
where we would go on Sundays.

And loving so these wild things,
I planted in my yard a forest too,
which now, full grown,
repays me
with its healing.

June Stepansky

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