lamb-like
(31 March)

today is a lamb-like
day
as it happens
where I am
whereas
you might be in a storm or counting
minutes ‘til one happens

or there could be
late-spring
or on a desert where the climate
seems
unchanging
though
if minutely
it is not

here
the sun is shining
as it
tries for spring
still somewhat winter-pale

here and there some detritus
from the frigid season
(or
the opposite
way south)
waiting to be washed away after
a widespread and
we may
hope
a natural sort of thaw

for anymore the Earth fool us
in that we fool
ourselves
in
how we grew
and now manipulate
(per se)
the climates of our planet

I mean
decades of abnormal
if not
aberrant
burning
poisoning of land and sky
and shall we mention water for
the nonce
in
all we’ve done

the state of pipes
e.g.

and each of us may now
take part
though most of us were not decision-makers
in the melting of
our
atmospheric health

while this is not an issue save as
breathing might be
one

it is not a choice in politics
whether or not
the Texas-sized hole in the ozone
exists
(which could be less regarding relative
in danger)

and I
was saying it’s
a lamb-ish kind of day
and here
it is
if pale
in the hope that with the season
all colors and movements
there
in climate
shall become robust
in
spite of things and
even as a cosmic
gift
to us
in most zones
if not them
all
by new-normal and by worn-plastic
rather literal
causes

c l couch


photo by Mitchell Orr on Unsplash