Improvements

Where rivulets follow ditches,
leaves make dams,
and small boys are moved
to purpose.
Their passage downhill
is slowed by painstaking
excavations
to speed the flow of water.
Never tell a boy

that natural order requires no improvements;
they are not in the least impressed that
water finds its own way.

birds worship

birds worship 

in a cathedral of leaves and wind

solemn chickadees

like priests and priestesses attendant 

upon the holy psithurism

of God's breath of renewal through buds 

and blossoms

of trees' hope springing anew