Spring Returning, Quickly

A poem by Emily Kledzik

plants budding, flowers nodding open in the grass–

pollen exploding upwards like elon’s rockets,

bursting in the air, debris falling for human consumption.

cool air kisses me gently, promises hotter moments later today.

i feel persephone’s touch and lean my head back, eyes closed,

back arching into the feeling of returning sensation and life.