Spring Trysts

trout lilies / PSC 2014

trout lilies / PSC 2014

trillium / PSC 2014

Spring Trysts

I stumbled upon the trilliums today –

just popping through last autumn’s oak remains

(trout lilies’ leaves having peeked out days ago,

but Jack-in-the-pulpit, still in hiding)

They called out to me on the trail

wanting to have their picture taken

so I indulged them,

marveling at how quickly they’d grown,

(as they were nowhere to be seen just days before)

and pleased to see them, alive and well,

after such a long, cold winter. We visited a bit,

then went our separate ways, smiling, 

each happy to have seen the other.

I worry about them, at times, wondering

who will visit them when I’m gone?  (and:

who will watch out for this lovely place?)  

Every day I say goodbye

as if this might be our last tryst,  

like a slow, painful peeling away –

pulling a Band-Aid from a wound.

I worry & I hope

someone else will come along

to pick up

where I’ve left off

PSC/2014-Apr

Jack-in-the-pulpit / PSC 2011

trout lilies / PSC 2011

trillium / PSC 2011

Written for 2014 April PAD Challenge:  Day 22 – An Optimistic and/or Pessimistic poem: http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2014-april-pad-challenge-day-22