Sonnet May 10<\/p>\n
Almost mid-May, I watch the spring come slow-
\nly day by day, pale lime-green moving up
\nfrom Sheepscot Valley towards my mountaintop,
\nup here the leaves still furled. Two eagles flew,
\nlate afternoon, just past the east window.
\nToday, wild violets everywhere I step,
\nbright golden dandelions on the slope,
\nwarm sun, after a week of rain, hail, snow.
\nRemembering to match my pace to this,
\nto note the details of each day\u2019s new turn,
\nthe distant hills still patched with lavender,
\ndeep green of fir, the changing moments pass.
\nFor dinner I\u2019ll have buttered fiddlehead fern,
\nThe daffodils are opening in the grass.<\/p>\n
Rhoda Neshama Waller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Art credit:\u00a0\u201cTwo adults from the local Bald Eagle family,\u201d\u00a0photograph<\/a>\u00a0taken August 19, 2012, near Pembroke, Maine (USA), perhaps.<\/p>\n {first posted May 15, 2015}<\/p>\n <\/p>\n p.s. People who live where I do have noticed my gait looking bad. \u00a0Sometimes strangers ask me some version of \u201ccan I help you?\u201d and carry my stuff, humbling and touching. \u00a0Finally, yesterday I met a hip surgeon who looked at my x-rays & showed me the x-ray from ten years ago when we replaced my left hip \u00a0(at that time zero cartilage and growing bone spurs). \u00a0Surgery worked wonders. \u00a0He compared that 10 year x-ray with today\u2019s. \u00a0 Same thing, \u00a0zero cartilage bone-on-bone. \u00a0 He asked \u201cwhy did you wait so long?\u201d \u00a0 Good question. \u00a0 At any rate, the first open date we found is June 20. \u00a0I\u2019ll have to miss some travel which is important to me but imagining the absence of chronic pain smells good to me even at this distance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n p.p.s. \u00a0Leigh Star, a soul friend who died too young, wrote me this blessing the day after hip surgery # 1. \u00a0I miss her.<\/p>\n “I will think of your body gladly giving up this pain and accepting a stranger into its midst, learning to live with its new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n January 9, 2008<\/p>\n Leigh Star \u00a01954-2010 Friday, \u00a0May 4 \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0\u201cI watch the spring come slow-ly\u201d Traveling north-south, south-north during season changing time lets trees and ground plants show their stuff to visitors. \u00a0Readers from where I live in Detroit will recognize in the poem how … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/05\/Leigh-Star.jpg\")
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