Three Springs
Pennsylvania spring
is about April showers
bringing May flowers:
violets, buttercups,
tiger lilies
and the whole earth
greening up
as suddenly as a robin
lays its little blue
egg.
Colorado spring
is about tulips, daffodils,
lilacs,
wind tearing hopeful
kites to shreds,
wondering if winter
has one more blizzard
left
to terrorize tender
green buds
and newborn lambs.
Arizona spring
is about hillsides
getting a greener shade
of brown,
cactuses looking lovely
in bloom,
bougainvillea fragrance
filling the air,
cranking up the AC,
preparing for the oven
blast.
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