bright and young

among the trees                         coming up and down                         a japanese maple

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softly

hawthorn petals                    quicken                     maple shade

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Expectance

a          robin           among           crabapple           buds

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fern

               spring                                        time’s                                        unwind

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milkweed seeds

Autumn seeds         a rising choir         —         into what dark promise         will the sounding fly?

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weathering

widely native, never wilting, weathering well, white avens (Geum canadense)

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once again

spring hopes                         a seedling oak                         before the deer

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milkweed garden — third spring, first blooms

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moment

  mown        a moment        remembering thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia).

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a brief turn

Cherry Springs State Park, I’m told, is named for groves of black cherry trees–

its evening sky,  the clearest and darkest in Pennsylvania.

These days by Little Crum Creek, hours from the skygazers I’ll one night join,

a single black cherry briefly flowers the white light of our nearest star.

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