Kerri Shying R # 468 like a too warm coat on a day that turned out sunny ( for Lynn Reeves)

For Lynn Reeves

your boots  sit back against the fence     planted up

with sprays like fireworks   the flowers  of the

footpath    where I walk    my late afternoons  of

thinking  when the cabin fever closes in     views

expand  the world that touches me   on all sides

like a too warm coat  on a day that turned out sunny

shrink-wrapped  against travel      I see what there is

to see     head to toe      root to flower  the corms 

dropped along the roadside     at just this season    tell me

here is that idea again   and I am still moving    too fast

not yet    two feet forever planted   back at home