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A titmouse in a tree in springtime.

Earnest in springtime,
he pulls deep songs from his chest,
that bounce off the sky.

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A song sparrow singing in a cattail marsh in springtime.

for Thornton Wilder

Who feels the prairie,
stops for the song sparrow’s song?
The saints and poets.

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A green heron stands perched in a tree against clear blue sky in springtime.

Just perched in springtime,
the green heron stands amazed —
at the sun, its warmth.

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A plum tree starting to bloom in springtime.

They move spring along —
blooming in the still-cold air,
balanced on bare limbs.

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A plum tree starting to bloom in springtime.

My mother’s plum tree.
reaches in from the abyss —
blooms opening slow.

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A pair of mallard ducks sit and guard their nest on a riverbank in springtime.

A pair of mallards
like sentinels in springtime —
eggs at river’s edge.

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A clump of bloodroot and squill blooming in springtime.

Bloodroot and blue squill
open to woodpecker drums
in the spring forest.

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A clump of hepatica blooms opening through dead leaves on the forest floor in springtime.

Oh you wistful girl,
hepatica up through dead leaves,
alive underground.

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A garter snake coiled on the forest floor in springtime.

Sleeping with lichen —
the garter wakes in the woods
under April sun.

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A Robin singing high in a tall tree in springtime.

Reedy and intent,
his song is automatic —
Robin in springtime.

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Milkweed seeds floating off the seed husk in springtime.

Diving off the husk,
milkweed seeds float off, nose up —
life of air and earth.

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Milkweed seeds tucked in their husk and ready to start releasing in spring.

Seeds embroidered in —
threads pulled out like stars to fly
on sharp April wind.

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A long view of a decaying tree on the forest floor covered in green moss in the sun on a spring day.

Cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer,
the cardinal, relentless
in these darkest times.

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A close view of lichen around a faint knot on the park of a paper birch tree in April.

Lichen at the knots,
wishes could be written here —
paper birch in spring.

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A male and female pair of mallards swim in a spring pool filled with relfections in April.

Their wake breaks shadows
cast across cold spring pools —
duck pair in April.

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A male and female pair of mallards swim in a spring pool filled with relfections in April.

Ducks swim in spring pools,
their beaks reflected make four —
above and below.

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Puffy clouds in the predawn sky with stars still showing above a tree just getting spring leaf buds.

Under dawn leaf buds,
there is no resolution —
the stars are still out.

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Puffy clouds in the predawn sky above a treeline after spring storms, blurred in a long exposure.

In this darkest time,
up before dawn, still thankful
for ecstatic skies.

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