{"id":3468,"date":"2020-05-04T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:58:28","slug":"may-4-maine-lives-north-of-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/05\/04\/may-4-maine-lives-north-of-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"May 4 — Maine lives north of Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, \u00a0May 4 \u2013 \u00a0\u201cI watch the spring come slow-ly\u201d<\/p>\n

Traveling north to south or south to north during season-changing time lets trees and ground plants show their stuff to visitors. \u00a0Readers from where I live this early May morning will recognize how much farther north it is in mid-Maine. \u00a0Sometimes if we get lucky and have time, we can catch three or four spring-unfolding times with a little traveling. \u00a0 Poet Rhonda Neshama Waller offers readers who live south of her a taste of what down here was weeks ago \u2014 \u201cwarm sun, after a week of rain, hail, snow.\u201d \u00a0 In Detroit, most of our leaves have spread almost to full size, tulips have already blown our minds. \u00a0 Which part of spring is more beautiful? \u00a0\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0Rhoda Neshama Waller:<\/a>
\n<\/strong>\u201cSpring Comes to Maine\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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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

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\u201cSpring Comes to Maine\u201d by Rhoda Neshama Waller.
\nPresented here by poet submission.<\/p>\n

Art credit:\u00a0\u201cTwo adults from the local Bald Eagle family,\u201d\u00a0photograph\u00a0taken August 19, 2012, near Pembroke, Maine (USA), perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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