Our Love of Spring Goes Unrequited

for Jenn

The wall-to-wall chartreuse

has already waned to avocado

and soon will turn dull kelly.

Sugar season’s long over.

Today I walked in a dogwood

blizzard, and it’s raining.

If flowers stuck around longer,

would we love them less?

Izy asked the Real Toads to write about the dark side of spring.