Yellow Blossoms

by Bea Garth, copyright 2008

Spring, how I love your sweet smells,
your tossed looks. Spring, thank you
for your shimmering yellow blossoms
and bright green sour-grass!
Thank you for the sunshine
and breath of warmth
moving through the light hill air!
Thank you for the black bees
and gray pill bugs, for the delicate eyed
fawn across the wire fence
and even the feral gray cat
that wakes me late at night or early morning
with his howls and screams
in pursuit of my two sweet felines,
making me think of my own love waiting
while I feel my blood begin to move,
the mitochondria starting to flower at long last
like the newly blossomed calendula
and red geraniums
flanking my front door!