The new leaves and the understory have not yet
closed the view of the old shacks down the hill.
The herbs and flowers wake up
to a new arbor and a gate,
so new nothing’s climbed it yet.
The pattern can be seen from space,
or at least from Google maps,
cut through the hay; the loop around the shed,
the three branches — to the road, to the compost, to the barn.
Walk softly on the poaceae-glyph,
(poaceae, the family of grasses),
but bring your long shadow.