1 a very small rabbit - ears back & fur the color of the perfectly toasted part of a marshmallow.
2. a pair of woodpeckers together on a fallen sycamore log - red-headed & one lattice-backed.
3. two black calves standing about in a creek, nose to nose with their ridiculously long-legged reflections.
4. a happy-to-be-awake border collie patrolling the Rushing's farm.
5. rolling hills speckled with sheep - brown faced, white, some with brown coats. They drifted over the landscape like earthy clouds.
6. fat groundhog waddles at surprising speed, going to ground into a nasty tangle of dead vines (look closer & they're tinged with green).
7. March elms pretending to be sinister & shadowy, not quite concealing their swelling tips.
8. look up at the implausible wingspan of a vulture - the March elms suddenly are sinister.
9. one mostly-tail squirrel skittering from the dog-side to the sheep-side.
10. black horse on new green grass, at the lower end of the field, right before sunrise, looking like the first thing of a first world.
11. boisterous yawn of a rooster echoes after me - you can't outrun the day's dawning.
40 minutes of wednesday on planet earth (& this is not to mention the thronging spikes of daffodils & imperceptible pollen tang in the air, or the american robins staking claim to every thread and dry grass around)--
it's spring.
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