Elder weed sends up
starry-white flowers,
mini-Queen Anne’s lace.
Its rhizome roots
crowd out hapless
coral bells and astilbe
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That June Glow
June’s mid-day glow
turned my daughter’s pale cheeks
rosy as flowers
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Together
petalled, leafed and bare,
together through the long years
branches twined
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The Heart in Spring
trembling magnolias
feeling the cold wind’s touch
each petal shivers
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Under a Tree
orchestra of color
before the first flower blooms —
a rainbow of chairs
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First Flowers
after snowmelt,
the first flowers have
a special magic
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Mad for March
blue berries round
piny and pungent
Juniper berries found Continue reading
Beware the Ides of March
Be you a young Russian soldier
doing as you’re told or
a young Ukrainian,
castaway
from home, Continue reading
Missing Migrators
missing migrators
flying flocks disappeared south,
empty nests
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The Deep Quiet
winter sunset,
even birds stop call-call-calling
to look up
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To February
our bluejay jeer-jeers
amid newly-forming buds
before he disappears
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Done and Dusted
cold dust,
tree branches creak and crack,
brilliant sparkles blind
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