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Across the lakes

Through frozen flakes
 
They come in storm, 

Whose breath be warm 
 
To change a freeze 

Into a tenderness, 

To fall and splatter, 

With applause

To somehow matter; 

Offer cause,

Hard against the clotheslines of 

The earth of every yard.

Spilling a releasing warmth 

To all frozen tongues and 

Flowered root that soon 

From canon stalks will shoot 

The sky with both barrels 

Of new brightness. 

Seizing every eye,

As spring is born. 

Pages torn, windows flung, 

Songs sung and

Sun splashing warm kisses 

Onto cheeks that blush 

With wishes 

For only more.

A day or two of lasting pleasure

Amore’, 

This too, a part of 

Our forever story.

I will sit outside tomorrow 

On a tiled balcony

Have my breakfast, 

Scrambled eggs 

And caviar, 

Portion out a peace

To share with God.

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