SPRINGTIME

Tiny corn sprouts, green silk thread stitched against brown velvet.

Waist-high hay ripples like sea waves, flashing silver and green.

Towels on the clothesline, cracking in the wind, straining to get loose from pit-bull clothespins.




Black furry calves bounce across the field on stumpy pogo-stick legs.

A nest of wild turkey eggs, a secret sacred treasure tucked beneath a spindly apple tree.

Kitty, sulking, has her comeuppance, confined to the porch by a saucy mockingbird.




Lazy, daisy, sleepy buzz of bees.


Seems a new flower blooms every day.

Three...two...one more math lesson and we're done!