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aspen, Aspen Buds, Aspen Trees, Balm of Gilead, Healing, Olive oil, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poplar Buds, poplar trees, Spring, Toads
We acclimate to early spring,
Wind, rain, and fifty degrees,
Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor,
Because the world is opening to us,
Like the gentlest of heavens.
Poplar buds, sticky with resin,
Ready to be picked from their branches,
Mixed, and set aside to ferment in oil.
A balm for brokenness:
Stir together early spring toad-sound,
Coming to us from a darkened pasture
Where it overflowed with melted snow
And rain, a pair of killdeer nesting
Out by the north fence among the dry grasses,
And the aspen, still bare, but breaking in buds.