Crocuses!

Crocus

In my backyard, there are

a few crocuses.

I've dabbled at planting them--

mostly without any success.

So now they amount to

a dribble and drab of wannabe beds

or isolated individuals and usually

for every one that never appears again,

some new ones pop up!

Such is the mystery of

the propagation of crocus .

And yet, I have this

one small faithful flock, this

sublime shtetl...this colony of crocus

that year in and year out arrives

and is just glorious.

I don't know what

they've been dreaming about

all the year long in their

subterranean hovels, but

I do hope that my utter admiration,

my delight at their primavera beauty

somehow pleases whatever it is

that constitutes a crocus' conscience.

~ Randy William Ash