Contentment
Terrance Caviness
Terrance is a junior at SUNY-ESF majoring in environmental biology and minoring in environmental writing, and rhetoric and Native Peoples and the environment. In the future he hopes to work in education outreach and inform people about plants and the environment.
I am content to know
The protecting embrace of a maple
Shielding me
From harsh January winds,
The powder blue stars –
The glory of the snow
Stretching forth in February,
The courageous snowdrop
that bursts
Through March soils,
The comfort that is seeing,
Year after year
A magnolia blossoming in April,
The recollection of memories wafting in
with the scent of lily-of-the-valley
On the warm breaths of May,
The simple friendship
Of an ageratum
Budding in June,
The shy efflorescence
Of an iris
On an arid July afternoon,
The taste of the fruit
Of a pear tree
On a damp August morning,
The sympathy
Of a weeping willow
Drifting along September breezes,
The subtle gift
Of a tessellated leaf
Of a sweetgum in October,
The sight of the vivid blossoms
Of the witch hazel against
The white of a November snowfall,
The familiar scent
Of a balsam fir
Quaking in voracious December winds,
This is enough.
Photo courtesy of Eleonora Gorini
