Spring thrills me. The theme of growing things--of immersing oneself in this beautiful, verdant creation-- plays prominently within my own writing.
From a poem called "Letter to the Man I Didn't Marry":
From the front porch swingFrom "Seventeen Hours, Give or Take":
I watched the librarian fly by on her bike
like the wicked witch and the irises rise
inch by inch. I am itching
to get my hands in the soil, to smell
the dirt caked thick and dark
beneath my nails. You were wrong,
you know. You never could have been the one
to heal me.
Two hours to goFrom "The Botanist and His Wife":
and we are easy again
as if some lethal spell
has been lifted. We unzip
our stiff suits
at the state line
and toss them out the window.
Our skin beneath is warm
and smells greenly of wood.
We can’t stop breathing.
Back home he kills plants. First day of spring,Indeed, I am inspired boundlessly by this abundant good earth. So are many other poets. Do a google search for "spring poetry" and see what you can find, and then join my Spring Poetry Contest!
He sends the philodendron and African violet out
to sun on the porch, imagining their chloroplastic ecstasy.
Instead their leaves are scorched, crisp
as potato chips around the edges.
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