When your first few walks after a hospital stay are just on your terrace and it is still winter
A Cinderella’s silver slipper moment
the first morning after a hospital stay.
Light ushers in a dawn festival . Each leaf
a carillon of bells on the fiddle tree.
Music sounds on the air.
Amerthys, ruby, emerald shine on petals .
The scent of the earth.
Caroll of birds.
Blood-red Coleus .
The schlumbergera still blooming
Bearded Lily, Iris, Petuna
the rainbow spikes of bromeliads and salvia.
From the sterile white cell
today is finding the owner
of the lost diamond slipper
and slipping it back on.
