Still winter, but hints of spring already: poems

C. Hoggard photo

Three found poems:

IN THE NEWS

Thirteen

Burmese pythons

captured during one week

at a Key Largo refuge. How

scary!

~~

Lifetime

bus pass and two

new canes for the man who

broke his cane defending the bus

driver.

~~

Stopping

the bridge upgrade

after finding an egg

in a hummingbird nest. "Resume

when hatched."

~~

Staring

at a bare oak,

I notice a giant

quarter-rest symbol: a "Z" with

a "C"!

~~

Honey-

bees on the pink

quince blossoms, excited

--it seems--with their new food source, warm

weather.

 I, too,

delight, exult,

and work outside: dig up

monkey grass, trim yarrow and clip

hedgerow.

~~

Robin

flew to the rim,

waded around the rock,

dipped its beak a couple of time,

then flew.

~~

japonica

seems more lush

more pink this year

~~

Fluid,

interactive

art: watching the circles

made by raindrops in the birdbath

water.

~~

Who needs

a Valentine

when leftover fudge squares

are as close as the door of the

freezer?