April’s Hope

{ January 3, 2012 @ 12:01 pm } · { Home ~ My Poems }
{ Tags: gardening, Mother Nature, spring }

Beside splintered fence posts
negative space awaits
the planting of the heavy-fruited

tomato green, the leafy romaine, the
bulbous yellow-skinned squash

Cool sun streams through -
early spring molecules dance
to the frosted ground’s tune

Warm, warm, dark friend!
Cuddle the seeds tamped sweetly -
embrace the roots that
will burst against you
as you soften

Rise to the air young babies and
fill that negative space, keep
those fence posts company

and weep freely in the breath
of spring’s full-on promise.

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