Welcome Back, Me!

It's been too long since my last post. I know that, and I'm sorry. I have settled back into Tennessee life, and am honestly happier than I've been in a very long time. In the coming days, I hope to get more online about my goings-on and whereabouts and what-have-yous. For now, though, I just wanted to share my annual "Ode to Spring" poem written in the throes of a barefooted romp.

The dock breathes with me
As we suck in our
First lungful of spring.
Sighing, elastic terra
Fading rigid lines
Becoming cool waves
Melting

Cherry blossoms sucker punch
Barren branches—
Blood red pops

Magnolia flakes spin groundward
Mockery
To the fading season

We exhale.

My toes dry in
A softly humming breeze
Spring song sticking
In the river’s throat
A thick overture of pollen and
Slow spun spider webs

We creak and heave into motion
From a dead standstill
Rising,
Waking from long hibernation
Fading rigid lines
Becoming cool waves
Melting
Into the flexing soil