March – leaf and twig

Equinox

a touch of snow
first day of spring
March in the Northeast

cold holds together
the elements
of March’s mosaic

throughout
winter’s long march
positions held for spring

when spring seems
inevitable and impossible
all at once

lengthening of days
deepening of rays
maundy March

a flux of
halted movement
the design of fleeting time

Winter loiters
in the month of March.

Beneath March’s icy hold
Spring begins her rise to the surface.

Old oak leaves
shoot the rapids
of March’s thaw.