So much rain! Our seasonal creek’s been running over the driveway since New Year’s Eve; enough to wash my sandbags downstream. More rain today. It’s time for a sun dance:
Can Spring Ever Be False?
Any sunny day now feels like spring,
like the first Alaskan winter day above freezing,
we might be dancing in shirt-sleeves
till the early sun went down.
Here in Sierra foothills I’m walking spring green
squishy underfoot from so much rain.
No flowers yet, unless you count the mushrooms
overnight blossoming out of rot,
doing their own fairy-circle dance for love
of rain. We need the rain.
Right now it’s springing out of earth,
small gushers in the swale
where two tall young oaks in saturated soil
uprooted, one bringing down the other
like star-crossed lovers.
Their canopies entwined above a fresh green
bower, I creep inside. Imagine this
as shelter in a storm.
~ Taylor Graham
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