sidewalks blush with cherry blossom snow
robin redbreast ***** its hunting eye
black-cap chickadees flick forage now
seedlings wait for morning's warming sigh

winter hides to higher mountain's keep
gravity's cold rivers run riot
****** crows caw into forest deep
awakened buds drip dew in quiet

clouds roil vortices and thunder
break to sunlight's laser sculpted aura
spring released poltergeist toss und turn
nature remembers when it was young

-cec