"Will winter ever end?" some folks ask

a single, brave bird
tries its winter-dormant voice:
spring-a-soon, spring's soon!

[from delicious fatigue, 1992]
~~

two feet of snow there
yet the geese fly northward--
early March dawn

[premier edition, Hermitage, Romania, 2004]
~~

in the median
black Lab
shivering

[from Measuring March, 2003,
 published in Muse of Fire]
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ice storm--
a vine
without its host

[Measuring March, 2003]
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c lovepat press, 2014, PL