Three Sonnets (for three reasons)

I'm not posting three different sonnets, but one poem called "Three Sonnets"  :)  and there are three reasons why I am posting this poem today:

1.  It's such an exquisitely beautiful poem!,
2.  It's so true about my life!, and
3.  The Workshop updated their page for next summer!  Jim is again teaching the Poetry class during the special May session, and I'm going to try to get into his class for the third year in a row  :)  And this poem was written by Jim:
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Three Sonnets

By James Galvin

Where I live      distance is the primal fact   
The world is mostly      far away and small
Drifting along through cause and effect      like sleep  
As when the distance      unlikeliest of stems
Bears the unlikely      blossom of the wind  
Engendering our only weather      dry
Except in winter      pine trees live on snow  
So greedy      pulling down these drifts that bury  
The fences snap      the trunks of smaller trees  
If the forest wants      to go somewhere it spreads  
Like a prophecy      its snow before it  
Technology      a distant windy cause  
There is no philosophy      of death where I live  
Only philosophies      of suffering