With the marshes drained

And every mystery explained

Where does magic lay?

A fork in the road

Though petals cover the path

We simply follow

Inquisitive spy

Waiting for bugs to surprise

Before the mole tries

Wash me clear and clean

In rising fresh water streams

You fill up my dreams

Nettles bathed in red

Broken briar between our bed

Hawthorn hardened head

I launch parachutes

Ant sized clouds telling stories

Of fresh adventure

Knee high shoots graze our

Low slung bellies as we browse

Spring’s sweetest offerings

You can’t catch sunlight

Music lives but a moment

Will my words endure?

If I close my ears

And let my iris contract

My hands will let go

Always at the edge

Disappear into a speck

I’ll take what is left

Send me over dirt

Sailing through willow and birch

Back down to the land

A path through the wheat

Lines laid out by many feet

A desirous beat

Peering through the hedge

The ways that I carried you

Now you run ahead

Apple and cherry

From orchard into berry

Cider and perry

I flew round the world

To watch the cherry blossom

When on my doorstep

Ripples ride and jump

Gurgling between alder stumps

Smoothing out the bumps

The silver sickle

Calls meadows back to my

Surely the earth shines

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