Spring Thaw
Maureen Doallas
From her book Neruda’s Memoirs
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Heads up:
tiny shoots
break earth’s shell
spring up
from winter’s
bed of dreams
showing us
how to make
a comeback
every time.
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What I love about this poem is the playful use of language from “Heads up” to the idea of “making a comeback.” Maureen takes the beauty and implicit wisdom of nature and gives it the voice of our contemporary culture.