from Chasing the Cranes

Dale Pendell and Steve Sanfield

 

 

A child’s snowman

melting in the rain—

the carrot falls first.

 

 

There!

The first flowers

lost in dust.

 

 

Squatting

to shit:

the first buttercups.

 

 

Suddenly the heat—

dandelion seeds unmoved

by the dust.