// Mid-summer in the garden //

Since I was 4, I was barefoot;
"Put some shoes on!" 
my mother's words chased--
summer was the time; to run, 
feel the grass between my toes, 
(I always came back with bleeding toes)
rocks in the driveway ruined my fun
"This is why you need to put on your shoes."
but,
I need that connection; 
I need to see green;
I need to feel her all around me; 
she understands me.
And I her--