4.12.15

Today's prompt involved a favorite person, place, meal, etc...I picked one of my favorite places, especially this time of year.  I also threw in words from an online random word generator to keep it interesting. ;)

April Yard

The coiled spring of the sun

finally snaps, shooting hot gold

forsythia fireworks across

new grass, picnic table, dirt-crusted

chore shirt. Just-born gnats

like tiny rebel fighters

ramp up the blue runway

of the sky, leaving

winter’s soup of dead brown

to disappear under the renewed oath

of the creeping Charlie—first to come,

last to die, green and reeking

of stubborn life.