A green aura creeps into bushes. I inhale
this in-between gap-time
flanked by fixed seasons, and resolve life
is too slow to précis,
to enscribe, as youth, middle age, old.
I delight in space, a pause, an expectant
airing –
like a fleeting smell of hanging sheets,
or a night breeze
through open window telling of... whom?
Small white Canada Mayflowers at path’s edge
tempt me to stop.
I see skunk cabbage sprouts and nearby honeysuckle –
soon to perfume my rides –
and, in time, I’ll even come upon a fox and kits.
The business of the woods has only just begun.
Expectant air bewitches.
Poem by Lavinia Kumar
Lavinia Kumar’s latest book is Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists – very short prose biographies of near 90 amazing pre-Civil War women writers, poets, publishers, painters, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists. She is author of 3 poetry books (most recent, No Longer Silent: the Silk and Iron of Women Scientists) and 4 chapbooks (most recent, Beauty. Salon. Art.; Desert Willow Press). Her website: laviniakumar.net
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