Day by day, by day

I still marvel at the quick response

along with her team of five million.

But having put effort into the garden, the wider

orchard, the fields; those who could

continued to work and none so more than

her. I got on with bottling peaches, making plum jam.

Every day as autumn approached leaders all over the world

stood at their podiums as the leaves began to fall.

And we watched as you, the world, our precious planet

fared sadly, sadly.

But that was a year ago. This year, another picture

of the yard. So difficult to stay on top of this

as the first precious cargo landed on our shores.

For others too, the shipment came in.

Among the loud, here, just a few anti-vaxers

I saw no wasps in the garden;

a garden yielding as the season. The first jabs, in

our little neck of the woods began yesterday. And while

wasp numbers are down,

(for now); the number of vaccines provided —

frontliners first;

expected to rise day, by day, by day.