Betwixt and between
winter and spring
snow and soil
Heavy waters travel the stream bed
birthing winter’s load
Serpentine path through pond ice
widening each day
Frosty breezes cross the mud, called road
fresh as laundry on the line
Sunlit yard all toasted coconut
dolloped with mallow still
What magics keeps snow under such a sky?
Vernal pools
awaiting
Palette of bird calls
expanding
Misty cool dawn
of departure
and arrival
Promising change
Kelly Salasin, Spring 09
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