Spring Has Sprung

 

 

Sprung

 

Spring airs her dirty laundry

allows curry and comb to etch

a desire to conquer cling

of last season’s burgeoning business

 

bad propositions stir in minds most complex

least hesitant hatred warps into muddy composition

old habits poorly formed fray into a frenzy

of misguided and misled deep dark plans

 

and while we work

 

somewhere a salacious whisper threatens

like red snake to indifferent skin

that denies dangerous deeds could befall

to leave us no more than tattered tree leaves

floating to a wasted world

 

knee-dig pockets of waiting soil

yawns in soft near-resistant stretch

to waken to this whittle and rain-spittle urge

to begin to prepare to produce

what makes a woman feel is neatly necessary

 

and while she shovels

 

mingled breath rises against silt of city sky

pushing through plastic bone-crushing to crypt

as if, a fired signal, full of steely bolt and nuts

bursting through exhilaration scribing misguided anger

against facades that leave stains of heroism

and clouds of horror collude to mar collective consciousness’

 

she strips ragtag remnants of late guest leaving

scoops out scrub and shrub festooned with fall’s frenzy

to bring order to her first birds that are harbingers

to this thrust to be other than what was meant

its wildness trampled and tamed to fit her prying purpose

to weave string and wire and rope for potential runners

 

and while they run

 

damned destruction full of cliché cautions

rule wherein feet are placed and are frozen still

as a split screen pause for we are unable

unwilling and unable to bear next frame

 

slow green tongues lift up from a recent dying

to reach to warmth that comes when soft sunshine

can reach their lowly beds and warm winds

and where her heart and hands reached to love them

give them reason to rise amidst the rubble

 

and for this, we rise; we draw up our courage

and our unwillingness to stop what brings us joy;

like her       we are sprung spring

 

we rise

 

©Carol Desjarlais 4.18.13

 

References:

If you like poetry, here is my list of poetry about Spring.

https://allpoetry.com/list/47945-Spring