Spring

by Jay Frankston

Of all the things I have collected
coins and stamps and comic books,
beaches and tans and beds to sleep in,

days of wonder and rays of light
songs to sing, to learn and remember

Of all the things that I have gathered unto myself
in the years of rowing on the river of life,
the lessons, the dreams, coins of the realm,
the endless hills that turned into mountains
the top of which I have yet to reach

Of all the things that I have harvested,
success at the end of a popsicle,
a basket of unanswered questions
and a plate of mixed emotions,
there’s never been so rich a yield
as came from the love that grew on its own
in my Edenless garden.

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