Tentative early ‘spring’

— Photo by Greg Hume

“Two yellow dandelion shields do not make spring,
nor do the wild duck swimming by the shore,
so self-possessed, so white of side and breast,
nor, I suppose, the change in land-birds’ calls….’’

From “Night Wind in Spring,’’ by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986), Maine poet

Here’s the whole poem.

Chimney Farm, in Nobleboro, Maine, where Elizabeth Coatsworth lived with her husband, the famed writer Henry Beston.

— Photo by Magicpiano