germinal

germinal \ JUR-muh-nl \, adjective:

being in the earliest stage of development

Being in the earliest stage of development,

I do not judge you a veteran of my heart.

You do not know the way it chimes 

When the wind blows and the sky is turning gray.

How its pipes are like brass cylinders that hang

Around the wooden center upon which they bang.

But being in the earliest stage of development

They do not bang yet. No.

The wind from the mountains has not yet sunk

Into this valley where my heart waits to be moved

Hovering above the un-mowed ground

Only the grasses sway minutely in the calmness.

In this earliest stage of us, I will not warn you

Of the gales that can not merely be called wind,

Nor of the storms, or the wailing in the night of the coyotes

That circle the foundations where I live.
For now, just listen to the hesitant hoot of the owls,

Tucked into their branches in the star-studded evening.