Everything is still here

[ellajam]

So well done, if you edit I would expect only minor changes, as is it brings me right to the place and emotion.

Everything is still here

as I exhale, unfurling worries
as wisps of silk that purl I love the use of purl, it swirls but for me brings up an image up the wisps being knitted.
and shimmer in puddled moonlight,
each breathed into hindsight
by the first stars I ever saw.

A frozen one third acre of silence
amplifies echoes of innocence
that rustle in the briars
and sloe bushes, as I did
when still small enough
to evade their barbs.

Tumbling from ivy clad banks
I'd lop the heads of daffodils
we planted one October.
Planting patience you called it;
Digging the past This confuses me, but it's a first read.
to bury the future.

Youthful unkempt clouds of daisies
blanket the deep sleeping bulbs
and I recall scepticism
of a promised blossoming;
I know better now
as you did then.

A salt and sugar crust
coats the stone garden shed
where I served out my sentences
among pitch forks and pick axes;
Discipline and consequence
cemented within its walls.

The old stooped chestnut stands stoic
flecked with strands of snow.
He's outgrown my treehouse. These three lines are beautifully clear, "stopped dropping conkers" is lovely.
and stopped dropping conkers
since I stopped stringing them.
"...needs felling..." you noted recently.

I won't hear of it, the sapling can wait.

The dull beat of unseen swans
arrowing across Farnhnam field
and plashing the inky floodwater The use of plash instead of splash was jarring for me.
drums the reflection of a forgotten question
of departures and transience.

"Where do they go Dad?"
"You'll follow to find out in your own time."

Roused by the door handle's cold click The end, while it wind things up nicely, doesn't add anything new for me.
and warm escaping clinks,
I turn on the threshold
pausing to inhale,
absorbing stillness.
Everything is still here.

You've beautifully encapsulated the journey, each stanza stands strong. Thanks so much for the impressive read.