in the park
the japanese magnolia is shedding
its petals
All articles filed in April
holy saturday
we planted the peas today
rolled their plump green bodies
into the black bacterial dust
gardeners call inoculant
and then tucked them one by one
under the soil
april day
a rustle, a roar
branches sway, cottonwood leaves
shimmer in the wind
the colors of sunday
the world is awash in cream and lavender the invading violets have marched across the lawn flanking the driveway in a company of purple and circling the tree in the meadow in a fairy ring of amethyst and white beyond the fence the neighbor’s lilac is just starting to break into bloom; the fruit trees…
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the grub worm redeemed
what is the grub worm?
a blind, bloated, pale, writhing, wriggling mess
on the brink of golden hour
this evening on the brink of golden hour i trekked up the hill to the library noting, as i passed, the progress of spring after days of hiding demurely behind green leaves the neighbour’s pear tree has had a revelation erupting in a riot of white blossoms and the star magnolia at the top of…
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april, come she is
april, come she is
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