The newly leafed out aspens
shimmer their leaves in the wind,
the newly planted lindens do the same,
May sweeps across the dial like a sun,
opening everything

Bracken ferns leap up,
suddenly taller than six year old trees,
irises unfurl, and glow, and curl,
berry blossoms peak among the leaves

It is a time to realign
our sense of what’s important  –
thoughts like old stalks overcome
by the rising green,
old habits crumbling
like last year’s  bracken,
new strength maturing
like the wakened trees.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 14, 2021