a dry rattle among raspberry canes rainsticks
against grasses, air, a puff-laugh escaping thoughts,
hairroots of hundred year elms motion quelled
blink at the bleak wet-denim-black
trunks shuddering stripped of leaves.
spring blossoms are ludicrous naive hope
yet poplar buds already have nubs swollen
reddening nervous system molecularly jittering,
tense, release, beneath snow crust, beneath
the frozen humus the shapes of roots
(that are spread ready) are an echo,
an aboveground silhouette of summer
the dormancy is thinner than voice,
hard edge levers choice to pace
their whetted lines to scraps of heat
to the pendulum swings of moon.
a viscous stickiness thins to liquid primed
- mid-winter strains to stay within its own confines
scraped hickey of dirt, thin flake of frozen not
inert, bold voles stroll the airspace snatching
beetles flipping to back of tongue, air humid enough
to be wrung. Impossible is an imp of bull bones
a trickster crow that knows when all is lost
there is no lost place things go. all is here.
feel the memory of the climb, dust-colored bellyhair
black squirrels toenails leave marks on trunk’s bark
comic affrontery charms bloodthirst to swooning coos
Summer never left. It was only playing peek-a-boo
A scare, a one-sided fun. It is down under, wide-eyed
tense to be uncovered, beside the boiler, limp asleep.
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I’ve forgotten how it is to be inspired by drastic seasonal changes- beautiful winters brew of words you’ve stirred together here.