Every open bloom

Welcomes hungry visitors

In exchange for fruit

Springtime soon gives way

Summer marches into May

Savour every day

Blossom’s sweet promise

Held in a perfect moment

Inevitable

Despite the howling

Deep within the dark forest

Buried hope still lies

Between wood and tree

Between roaring waves and sea

Between eye and me

I can’t see the wood

I can’t even see the trees

Right in front of me

Celandine sunshine

Enshrines divine alpine vines

Lifelines intertwine

Silent scavenger

Picking up discarded scraps

Scraping out a life

Weave between the trees

Sail across deep blue bell seas

Dirt upon our knees

We have dug each hole

Cleaned and polished every bowl

Let the good times roll

Dusky cherry blooms

Imbibing ultraviolet

Light headed we swoon

With shovel and spade

Polish the earth into shape

Groom with broom and rake