A Field in My Mind

(with a nod to Mary Oliver, who wrote of fields of one’s mind well before I did)

A field
barren and cracked
at the hands of anxiety and pessimism
finds itself becoming fertile,
with peace as its nutriment.
I wonder,
from the seeds inherited by the mind,
what will grow here?

Michael Orlando Mancarella
written February 2023
Published to Bird Sounds & Sunlight on September 2, 2023