Umbria

Thanks and oh yes
for this bright-folding day
green-girdled and sun-stretched,
heavy with lazy stillness,
stirred but not shaken by
the pigeon’s coos,
the lizards’ scatter,
the breeze’s whisper.
Children and friends still in bed,
figs ripening and falling
overhead,
warm mountains, patchwork fields
and hill villages
fill the view
and nothing to be done
save what we want to do.