Daily April poem: out of luck
April 04, 2013
SPRING
April does the cha-cha
with my expectations.
I'm ready to pop champagne
and declare the glacier
in front of the garage
melted for the season
when I wake
inside a snow globe again.
Pity the robins,
returned too soon
and forced to squabble
with the angry chickadees
for scarce barstools
at the birsdseed diner.
Fortunate worms, granted
a temporary reprieve.
The third 30x30 poem prompt was "out of luck."
Yesterday morning we enjoyed a bit of spring snow, and I couldn't help wondering -- as I do every year -- what becomes of the robins who return to New England before the snow has entirely relinquished us. This poem arose out of that wondering.
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