first green flare
Published in Poem Of The Day
makes
the air
quiver
and dart
the throat
ache
to call
makes
the heart
cheer
the ear
keen
to the sheer
glorious
windfall
of oriole
veery
vireo
About this poem
"There is that single day, or hour, every year in early spring when the fresh new green leaves are dazzlingly lit from inside. This coincides with the return of the birds. It is ache-making."
-Sidney Wade
About Sidney Wade
Sidney Wade is the author of "Straits and Narrows" (Persea Books, 2013). She teaches at the University of Florida and lives in Gainesville, Fla.
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(c) 2015 Sidney Wade. Originally published by the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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