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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occasion

Constantly time and space align in ways we occasionally recognize:
through bare limbs before spring leaves–
a pileated woodpecker feeds from a dying tree snag

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Sunlight

Spring sun —                             light come to life                            in every limb

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Unprecedented

rainy and gray
silhouetting day
up hops a yellow-bellied sapsucker

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a nice spot

The fuzzy milkweed leaf — a nice spot to set

for a four-lined plant bug (Poecilocapsus lineatus)

done roaming the catmint

to feed like the young.

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