Plum, apricot, cherry, apple
the trees have put on their finest
plumes of bloom.
Each flower bursts with water—
dripping blossoms weigh down boughs
in pendulous languor.
Sweet sweet promise
Everywhere i look—
rippling white down creeks
distant dots in crevasses
swaths of swirling crimson
pinks, whites—
each petal plumper.
Sweet sweet promise
One hill near Canfield Road
sports a wide white shawl
bordering the creek at its feet.
on on on on it goes
and when all of those petals are gone….
Promise promise promise promise.
The promise in the mouth
Sweet sweet promise
Plumsplumsplums
cherriescherriescherries
peachespeachespeaches
cherriespeachesplums apples
the promise in the mouth
And then I found
the queen of all trees
in my daughter's back yard
as wide as it was tall—
a cherry blossom cloud.
I bow down in beauty and
Sweet sweet promise.