spring desire
soured
with aging moonlight
summer growth
an impulse
too green, too short
autumn longing
blooming
in sunset glow
winter harvest
loneliness
too white, too long
seasons come, seasons go
still I wait
for... spring desire
Shovel edited by Jack Galmitz, p.64
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