Perennials

Like the tulips
the daffodils

the grape hyacinth

we emerge

after a period of repose

of dormancy

we are enlivened

restored, revived, refreshed

Spring

in all its possibilities of promise

of fragile and fleeting beauty

of sunshine and sociability

of risk and reward

fertility

in all its implications

once again

the land and its denizens awaken

we are renewed.