Pamela Silin Palmer The Love Poems of Honniker Winkley

Decorative Artist, Illustrator and Fine Artist

The Love Poems
of Honniker Winkley

Spring Hops In On Robin's Feet

Spring hops in on robin's feet
And wrestles in the rain
Old winter like the aging crow
In black and silent pain;

The predatory snail lurks near
On muscled slimied toe
Climbs the thorny sapling cane
To chew the early rose;

The shrouded husk of caterpillar
Explodes in butterfly;
The newborn beastie in the grass
Blinks a light-socked eye.

The suckling pig is also new
And ready for the spit
So thrust him through with green spring wood
And roast him in the pit.

Life is not forever
We cannot hope to cling
So tear with teeth the roasty haunch
In robin-footed spring.

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