Keyboard of May Flowers
music of amber sunlightwarms air and pillow-soft breezes
charm the trees knobby
with April leaf buds
that turn to soft lime clusters,
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green pop-corn balls of small leaves
for May first, for Memorial Day,
later the duets of rain and light
shingle trees with layers of green
that flutter, applaud, and sway
with each strain of notes
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with each opus and spring aria.
flowering trees are each a garden
unto themselves, each a tune.
the forsythia go for the bold percussion
materializing the sunlight
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into startling golden leaflets.
clouds look unfinished,
poring through the sky with no
clear outlines. symphonies;
poodle-cut shrubs anchor houses
in well-combed lakes of grass.
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cypress spurge is two songs
harmonizing with flat-topped
clusters of yellow flowers
at the summit of pale olive
needle-like leaves,
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and pastel green powdered
fiddleheads begin to uncurl.
such melodies sing to the soul.
a stone wall beneath pines
looks rusty with discarded needles
and cotton-ball pussytoes remind
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us of snow, growing in colonies
occasionally scattered across sunny lawns
while tulip trees champion
lavender decorated tulips.
skunk cabbage is unrolled
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next to jack-in-the-pulpits
and a jackhammer woodpecker
machine guns a dead maple.
such glorious music eases release;
we get to share the light with heaven
when we appreciate angelic songs of nature.
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