One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Bumblebee window


In bumblebee windows 
winter has gone

Still slanted sunlight
carries us along

Shadows on the wall
of bumblebees in the air

Catches a cat napping
unaware

That bumblebee shadows
dance in his hair

And bumblebees rattle
the window there

Lazy cat's still
dreaming of wintertime

Lazy people still
waiting for spring to arrive

But I have awakened
to the possibilities

Of bumblebee spring
in place of winter dreams

Of windows of sunlight
in place of dark memories

And bumblebee windows 
that comfort me.