SLOW SPRING

Slow spring drags its feet
through Michigan’s mud, cold
and occasional sleet.

Diffident and shy,
it tries to convince --
that its melt and slop
are investments
worth a try.

Even Easter could not resurrect
our spring this year.
God could  not be prodded
to interfere.

Winter, the problem,
continues to whine --
won’t go to its room,
keeps nagging for permission
to linger 
and return.

New growth in Michigan
hopes that soon
negotiations, begun in March,
will produce a truce
before June.


DRK, 3/8/20