Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A Reminder

Inspired by the poem "Fresh Wind in Venice" by James Wright.


This poem
took me
to spring
in my
Cleveland childhood
where we
would watch
for signs, 
the daffodils,
then the
tulips blooming
in the 
 beds around
the front
window, and
we could
walk to
the park 
and break
off pussy
willows from
a tree
whose branches
bent over
the fence,
making it
public property
in our
view. And
those willows
would be
put in 
a vase
on our
kitchen table
and last
a long 
time. Fuzzy
and soft,
a reminder
that harsh
winters don't
last.

hms 6:33 a.m.

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