The Pace of Spring

This year, Spring comes at the pace

it should around here: slow but gradually deliberate.

Not like last year, where we saw Winter

shut down completely and Spring skipped;

Summer started in March, for a month,

then went back to early Spring in April,

with frost that killed the fruit buds,

then back to Summer in May.
Climate change, we're told.

But this year, as spring comes on
as we remember, as I remember,

I wonder how many more

will come like this,

and how many more will come.