David Will! Trock press, Jim Sitter! St paul! Been a very long time, I like Wierd Times sense and sensibility muchly, ket me on the list, this is the first i have seen. And hers's a spring poem thqt is better that what tou have, tho maybe not Kooser.
David Will! Trock press, Jim Sitter! St paul! Been a very long time, I like Wierd Times sense and sensibility muchly, ket me on the list, this is the first i have seen. And hers's a spring poem thqt is better that what tou have, tho maybe not Kooser.
PRAYER TO SPRING
By James P. Lenfestey
Open the door.
So many births!
A sun!
And the vernal equinox,
what is that but words
In an ancient tongue
changing everything
to tulips.
Open the door,
what is out there but the rain.
Let the floods come.
Let the warblers tread
home to their nests.
Let the worms glisten in love
under the covers of old leaves.
Let jack-in-the-pulpit open his
sermon with praise.
Let new words erupt:
crocus, daffodil, jonquil,
petals moving their
colorful lips.
And buds! Billions of buds!
May they burst with joy.
Let the bumblebee stumble
from her grassy cave.
And the bear with her cubs
the same.
And the spade and the plow,
let them come,
punch seed into soil,
how much good the dirt knows!
Let oak and elm unfurl
their thousand paws
to shelter with shade
the open door.
Who can stop this clapping!
This audience of everything!