Innocent ground

Poem by Angela Arnold

'...anything but too deeply trodden, churned – by the endless roil of thoughts past, future, or never...' | Photo: Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash

How then to be anything but hard
smooth and stone faced
(practised, all set?)
when the sower comes;

anything but too deeply trodden,
churned – by the endless roil
of thoughts past, future, or never –
to make her welcome,
to offer him a fit place?

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