LINES FOR APRIL 30April ends
with snow
still in
shadow.
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LINES FOR APRIL 29
Fierceness
of the green
growing things –
water is
eternal.
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LINES FOR APRIL 28Grim enough
for all the sky,
enough winds
for blustering.
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LINES FOR APRIL 27Stepping from
the winter barn,
unhappy horses,
into the joy
of spring sun.
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LINES FOR APRIL 24Snow
in shadow,
like
a secret
winter
keeps from
spring.
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LINES FOR APRIL 23Wind
rising.
The day,
singing.
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LINES FOR APRIL 22The circling
days.
The fat
sun
on spring
things.
The dream
of green.
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LINES FOR APRIL 21Wind in the trees.
Noisy grackles.
Yet spring will not
be distracted.
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LINES FOR APRIL 20Warm today.
Cold tonight.
Spring sings its
sing-song song.
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LINES FOR APRIL 17
Empty day.
The red-winged
blackbird takes
joy in nothing
or everything.
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LINES FOR APRIL 16Crows
on a fine day.
No-
where to go, they
stay.
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LINES FOR APRIL 15Ditch
along the road –
snow,
and the memory
of snow.
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LINES FOR APRIL 14Low ground
and the flash
of copper light
on great broad
wings rising.
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LINES FOR APRIL 13Ancient cranes.
New day.
Sun on
everything.
Spring.
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LINES FOR APRIL 10Spring has come.
The county
fellows take
down snow fence.
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LINES FOR APRIL 9
Leafing tree, the green
fire of its urgency.
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LINES FOR APRIL 8
The turned earth,
laid by winter,
warming now,
pungent, rich.
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LINES FOR APRIL 7
Mixed season –
Sullen wind.
Seagulls. Snow.
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LINES FOR APRIL 6Nebraska in spring –
The Sandhills are.
Dry Creek isn't.
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LINES FOR APRIL 3Urgency
in the birds'
morning talk,
fire in their
conversation.
I'd take notes
but find I don't
understand, and
they don't stop
to explain.
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LINES FOR APRIL 2Trees
resist the wind,
welcome
the singing rain.
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LINES FOR APRIL 1No more than
the pigeon
atop a silver-
domed silo
are we – wet
with rain,
both of us.
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