Ancient Sunlight
                    
 
                        While planting daffodils looking at the ancient sun and thinking about the first seeds
                     
                    Yesterday, planting daffodils and tulips in the new bed I made, lining tree trunks from the pine and spruce that once grew taller than my house, old warriors, now fallen so that I could have more sunlight in my life, more color all around me, taking what I need, to create the world I want to live and die in. And kneeling there-- dirt beneath my nails from giving each bulb the earth and space it needs to blossom in the spr...