for Leslie

Hey Leslie, thanks for your faithful reading, finally something new for you:

Hibernate -
sleep is for the unconscious.
Germinate
deep in dark, moist soil.
Activate
only the necessary.
Rumi-nate
on the compost within.
Then, when the spring shovel
taps the cold ground,
Emerge
lime green and ready
for a new dance.


by Wendy Thompson
published in Museletter, Volume XXVIX, Number 3, November 2008