EARLY APRIL: ELM TREES HEAVY
WITH CHARTREUSE FLOWERS

1.

a morning in spring's
uneven weather

cold wind
washes the sunlight

in high
wind-rocked branches
of elms

green flowers
dazzle the air


2.

8 p.m

moonlight
washes the cloudbanks

driving home down Vassar
I can see
plum trees flowering

in the night's radiance
they are luminous as snow

 

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