Thursday, March 15, 2012

ides of march - idus martii

it comes around again..
the half of march..
celebrated in rome long ago
as a war festival..for mars..the god of war..
then a death day for caesar

and how do we play it today..?
it is laundry day..
ghee making day
windy day
half of march
scouring the horizon for daffodils..
urging the sun to peek bright
with dozens of sun salutes..

a day like any other day..
or is it?

to a robin in lent
you were the first one back,
the first one back.

you clung to a bare black branch,
your habit to choose sundays in march,
wind whirling around you,
sky grey as a shroud, and wet,
to sing to the flowers, not there yet.

you were not loud.
no, not at all.
but you knew what you were doing.

~elizabeth spires

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