Saturday, April 11, 2015

PA #11 seasons

Three Springs

Pennsylvania spring
is about April showers
bringing May flowers:
violets, buttercups, tiger lilies
and the whole earth greening up
as suddenly as a robin
lays its little blue egg.

Colorado spring
is about tulips, daffodils, lilacs,
wind tearing hopeful kites to shreds,
wondering if winter
has one more blizzard left
to terrorize tender green buds
and newborn lambs.

Arizona spring
is about hillsides
getting a greener shade of brown,
cactuses looking lovely in bloom,
bougainvillea fragrance filling the air,
cranking up the AC,
preparing for the oven blast.

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