Thursday 21 March 2019

cold spell

Push back the blossom
into the bud.

Push back the sea
from the shore.

Coltsfoot and hackberry,
Coughwort and bird cherry,
Back in the bud with you!
Wait for your time.

Silver birch, white birch,
hazel and horse chestnut,
Back in the bud! Do not
come before your time.

Black locust, linden.
Black locust, lime.
Do not come before your time.

Lilac, save your purple.
Dandelion, your sun.
Priest, take your turn:

Corylus avellana
Tussilago farfara
Padus avium
Taraxacum officinale
Betula pendula
Syringa vulgaris
Aesculus hippocastanum
Robinia pseudoacacia
Tilia cordata
Wait for your time.

[[ A spell ]]

[[ Jablonska, Katarzyna & Kwiatkowska-Falinska, Anna & Czernecki, Bartosz & Walawender, Jakub. (2015). Changes in Spring and Summer Phenology in Poland — Responses of Selected Plant Species to Air Temperature Variations. POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 63. 311-319. 10.3161/15052249PJE2015.63.3.002.  ]]

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