Of This Day

The sun shines 

still winter-white

but moving into

the vernal equinox

and warming us

this day as

people busy with

myriad preoccupations

rush headlong

into the afternoon.

Green shoots

poke through the

rich muck of the ground

loosening up after

abandonment of snow and ice.

A mother

sauntering the street

with her infant

stops to observe

to imbue

his fresh face

with the knowledge

of awakening.

c.1981