Add solar juices,
and the cheddar bulbs open
wearing tiny Victrola noses
promising March melodies,
tunes uploaded to a puffy cloud
then VRUMM, drowned
by a gas mower’s throbbing drone.
The landscaper rides a John Deere
wearing a Dash baseball cap
and reappears back and forth behind
a fat forsythia a mere ten yards away,
neighbor’s steady Friday-guy who forces
me to reconsider deck enjoyment.
Solar juices. Victrola noses.
Miraculous quiet.
Wait. A poof. A trill.
Flowerpot to ear, my mood rekindles
as stems bow, tickle my cheek.
I listen as daffodils sing the simple
flourish, TRA-LA-LA-LA-LA
a fine, spring madrigal.
Sandra Brodkin Dreis is the author of two chapbooks, “Cultured Pearls” and “Dry-Docked in New Jersey” (published by Kelsay Books, 2024). Her work appears in numerous literary journals, anthologies and zines such as: “NC Literary Review”, “Main Street Rag”, “Kakalak”, “Songs of the Inland Sea- Anthology”, “The Ravensperch”, and “Flying South”.
