let spring bring growth

let spring bring growth 


like allowing the sap to rise
and my blood to thunder quick


may the dragonswing leaf unfurl
dark, fragile, impossibly strong


let it be so


please forgive the magnolia,
the apple and cherry, for bursting forth


the grass arduously pining through every sidewalk crack,
my skin, still present after all these months


tumult has a clanging need to be heard
and I've never been good at waiting


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April 2016, copyright Sarah Hirsch.



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