Consequences of the Honeysuckle Fence
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Revel today in the child-bright forsythia
the sudden immodesty of cherry blossoms
mannered lilacs and daffodils
all evanescing in bloom
announce more light in the very day
for which you, all winter
have yearned
hopscotch chalk in piebald shade
skipping school for skipping stones
the kiss of the ice cream spoon
you breeze-reverie through windows
open to swizzling flies
and your kin with easier ways
gather the lightness of the day
in a spirit more silly
than baby toes
the honeysuckle fence in filigree
is the ampsersand of nature and desire
once you taste a tendril
you taste the drift and chance
the lift and dance of the eternal return
you answer the high calling of serendipity
and climb to the light and green of romance
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