thunderstorms the soil fertilized by those before
the long score dread of autumn
the killing cold of three months of winter
the bones calcium

the work of maggots
the rotting excrements
the boiling mad wolf growl
the poor rabbit's soul gone

the world spinning around an axis
of the strongest surviving hot gasses
or the moon influencing the rising
fall of tides

mountains of ashes oceans of sediment
the seeds left last year
and those long forgotten
that keep

in their knowledge their inevitability
the genetics the flowering new rose
brightening in the sun
this spring