Ah! as the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie...

"Spring and Fall," Gerard Manley Hopkins

Leafmeal

As oaks grow from the nutrients of fallen leaves, ideas grow from the words which fall on our minds. My poems have grown from the "leafmeal" of Hopkins, Wendell Berry, and the like. May these words grow a new thought, a new joy, and perhaps an oak of righteousness in you, dear reader.