Springtime Thaw
Early Earth thaw
First gasp of breath
Heaves its snow chest
Like a blanket pulled back
Arches its cadaverous humps
A surfacing serpent
Along the street curbs
Slithers to the drains
Snakes away through the pipes
Spills over the dams
Swims in the rivers
Toils to seas
Butterflies as rain
Tombstone wave
Ten thousand miles away
Taps the cedar of a clipper ship
Once a snowflake
In this winter land
Marking a grave
In a frozen drift
Outside my kitchen window.
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