Spring Forest

Along the exterior confines
of the forest, wildflowers bloom
their seasonal blush and
thrushes herald the sun penetrating
the early morning cloud cover
and the forest canopy to glance 
its warming rays on wild orchids
and lilies. The forest understory
is wild with bracken, moose maple
dogwood and hemlock saplings
all verdantly gleaming with 
the overnight inversion's dew.
A fiercely fluming mountain
stream sends its spray and its
drumming fury in a crescendo
of nearby sound from runoff 
down the slopes. The fragrance
of a fallen spruce permeates the
atmosphere as a Yellow Admiral
glides past a hemlock into the
welcoming green arms of a fir.