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Spring 1994

by Rafer Nelsen

It's spring.

Virgin leaves and columns of green,

Honey, pollen, a great sweet comb,

Bubbling blue waters and my renewed hope.

 

It's spring.

And, giving in to instinct's call,

My feet run free with Pan's wild troupe,

Over hills and crags and Proserpine's stoop.

 

It's spring.

My heart too strays, but soundlessly,

Till it comes across hemlock wines.

And my lover's taste and her distant cry.

 

It's spring.

The pace slow, to allow me breath,

Matching that of my heart gone white.

It's spring, I say.

And I long for the winter moon's dim light.