{"id":3012,"date":"2019-05-01T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:43:30","slug":"may-1-spring-in-detroit-spring-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/05\/01\/may-1-spring-in-detroit-spring-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1 – Spring in Detroit, Spring in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Po<\/strong>st \u00a0\u2013<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>\u201cAlmost mid-May, I watch the spring come slow-
\nly day by day . . . ”<\/p>\n

Traveling north-south, south-north during season-changing time lets trees and ground plants show their stuff to visitors. \u00a0Readers from Detroit, where I live this May morning, \u00a0will recognize how much farther \u201cnorth\u201d it is to mid-Maine. \u00a0Sometimes if we get lucky and have time, we can catch three or four spring-unfolding times with a little traveling.<\/p>\n

Poet Rhonda Neshama Waller offers readers to her south a taste of what down here was weeks ago \u2014 \u201cwarm sun, after a week of rain, hail, snow.\u201d \u00a0 In Detroit, this year, spring lags a little; mostly May\u2019s first ten days will top out in the low 60\u00bas; still our 1st tulips cooperate with daffodils to splash our courtyard with once-a-year fresh colors. \u00a0 This morning, too, the tell-tale smell of fresh cut grace makes its presence known for this year\u2019s first time. \u00a0 \u00a0Which part of spring in a northern place is more beautiful, this early delicate teasing or a head-spinning explosion of \u00a0leaves and a vast new presence of mature flowers everywhere? \u00a0\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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\u201cSpring Comes to Maine\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>–\u00a0Sonnet 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

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\u201cSpring Comes to Maine\u201d by Rhoda Neshama Waller. Presented here by poet submission.<\/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

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April 30, 2019 courtyard in the Jesuit house – U Detroit Mercy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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