Wild Joy in a Burning World

It’s daylight, barely.

It will get brighter,

Then again darker,

But it’s hard to see

Past the spot you walk.

As one columnist

In the Times puts it,

It’s hard not to ask

Now, What to Do With

Spring’s Wild Joy in a

Burning World? Burning

In so many ways,

Including with life,

Thanks to the burning

Of the sun, life’s hearth.

So now it’s getting

Warmer, when it’s been

So, so much colder,

And also warmer,

Before. A few steps,

A few thousand days,

That’s all you get, no

Matter what you get

Or when you get it.

It’s getting brighter.