Everything is Blooming

The Four

posted their latest 

collaborative piece

yesterday.

As inspiration for their individual
 photo contributions,

they featured this quote

by Rainer Maria Rilke:

Everything is blooming most recklessly;
if it were voices instead of colors,

there would be an unbelievable shrieking
into the heart of the night.

As I watched the bees flit

from branch to branch

at the tip top of the vine maple

outside my second-floor window

and caught sight of swallows

playing chase in my garden

and back to the pond,

I remembered thinking yesterday

that my side yard 

looked like a riot of color

had erupted all of a sudden.

But these rioters

don't announce their presence

with bullhorns.

They don't shriek or even warble

into the heart of the night.

Instead, they

merely whisper:

"Spring is here.

And I am evidence."