'Dammit Sir - I won't' <br /> <br />Slow explosions of unfurling ferns <br />As green as spring <br />The wood thrushes have returned <br />Fluting arpeggios <br />Never the same <br />This year <br />Billions of Brood X periodical cicadas <br />Wait <br />Just beneath the surface <br />Coiled <br />A vast genetic spring <br />About to take wing <br />Sing <br />Swap genes <br />Sting trees <br />And die<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/landscape-20-spring-in-the-air-colonel/
