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

Cold winds sweep over

Contour steep forestry floor

Can we sleep some more?

The clear light of spring

Brings life to the forest floor

Before leaves unfold

A precipice perch

Dangling over the ocean

Time left us behind

Keep reaching upwards

We don’t want to reach the light

Though we always try

Years slowly decay

Turn houses into hummus

And roads into ruts

A cracked reflection

Staring back into my soul

Unfold my weakness

In looming shadows

Through man’s steady destruction

The blossom holds fast

Keep working the ground

Building up by digging down

Shiny treasure mound

Old bridges prevai

Road over creek over rail

A tangle of trails

Lights lead us onward

Drawing us toward their gaze

A steady decay

Even reinforced

Castles of blue glass and steel

Can’t provide a nest

Between woodwind notes

Blossom leaves weave twist and float

Riding river boats