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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!

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Wonderful! Thank you for sending this on Spring Full Moon eve.

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