i smelled the trees today
it felt like it could have been
a thousand years
since that musky earth footprint dusted my nose
when really, only a heartbeat in time away
the frozen white veil no longer
dividing me
from my mother's
divine fragrance

birth
life
renewal
growth

in an instant
my years have come undone
rendering me a playful child
befriending stray hounds, and
dancing along the beaches of my dreams
happily embracing this
continuous
abundance
of be ing

in spr ing