In the Wake of Yesterday's Storm

This is for all of us who had to put up with yesterday's messy weather. But, looking on the plus side, we know that March snow is simply a prelude to spring.

In the Wake of Yesterday's Storm

How much hope the notes

of a songbird hold,

those first to find my ears in early March.

Enough to shrug off a windshield to scrape,

the wet shoe of slush and wonky, winter drivers.

Marilyn Aschoff Mellor