Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Day When the Snowdrops Bloomed


Take it easy’s what she used to say or any way
You can get it and her manner took whatever
It could get—a song beyond my ability to sing
I who can still muster only a scrawny cry O she
Took a good and friendly air even if a bit giggly
A bit crazily craftily hi ho hee hee hee I swear
The spring trees leaned down to listen when she
Stole a single flute note from the woods a small
Thing to palm and place in a perfume bottle
A brief tone she said contained the fragrant day
A patch of moss-weed lit by a shaft of sunlight
The maple leaves breathing softly a blue jay’s call
Echoing in the chamber of trees O what did she
Find what elusive sound did the branches hide?

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