Genesis

Another morning

and the world outside

is recreating Eden.

Dark fades to light

and shades of green emerge

from shadowy gray.

Next door

the sprinklers hiss to life

in dewy counterpoint

to the bright chorus

of the trilling birds.

The scent of earth

and fresh-mown grass

ascends

and stirs the sleeping household

to arise.

It could have been so good.

(November 2001 Rehovot, Israel)