For Marie
©1994 by Ben Bohnhorst

From his book:
A Service on the Sufficiency of Feeding Finches and Other Poems
Ridgeway Press, 1994

Another thought concerning Spring --
And this one is a lovely one
With quince and plum so showing joy
That girls and boys must twine their hands
And touch while such abundance blows.

We watch new lovers everywhere,
The young among the blowing blooms,
And see it is not really true
That April is a cruel month.
Not nevermore -- no, evermore --
Desire renews, and Spring returns,
And April is desire's sweet time.

This further thought about desire:
Once young we may be ever so,
Like that old cherry there, the one
Where two young lovers stand and reach
Their hands up in among the boughs
And shake the showering blossoms down.

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