Late March

Faint, stippled green and dusty
yellow, every surface now bears
the breath-marks of trees—
A fine flour, the sifted meal
from greenswards and croplands.
A sudden breeze, a drizzle—
This week, the flowering cherry;
last week, shreds of Bradford Pear. 
Auroras in the sky, the muffled cry
of some animal. Fish shaking
free winter's scales of ice.

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