Pageant of Seasons. Helen Stiles Chenoweth

Pageant of Seasons - Helen Stiles Chenoweth


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jays sunbeam-diving . . .

      man buttons his coat.

      Soughing waters

      and vacancy sign on the house—

      the sea gulls cry . . .

      In this strange garden

      the same notes, the same calls—

      birds of my childhood.

      Archaic smell,

      and yet spring's conscious green

      on moss-grown headstones!

      Boy snares the spring moon

      in his water bucket and dreams

      of rocket ships . . .

      Spring rain pelting down

      on winter's heap of dry leaves—

      sound disintegrates.

      Boy flying his kite

      with authority in string

      and his small hands.

      That old rooftop

      brags of spring in opera voice

      of one mockingbird.

      Gentle reminder:

      for the first mockingbird's song

      there is no title . . .

      Liquid sounds of April:

      that bubbling in the orchard

      from one cow blackbird.

      There is the quiet

      of crickets and tree frogs

      and one man thinking . . .

      Those tossed peanuts

      fail to impress greedy squirrels

      with donor's blindness . . .

      To shed a cloak

      of pain when seeing friends

      with spring's first lilacs . . .

      That moonlight of spring—

      no soporific for crickets

      and mockingbirds.

      Matching spring's wits

      the ball thrown by the boy

      chased madly by the dog.

      Braided ivy vines

      held many bird songs but spring

      chose a single nest.

      The grape hyacinths

      purple the garden path edge—

      no trespassing!

      First, clowning jays,

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