what fun
what fun
what a fun
time of year
mossy boulder in the sun
icicle dripping baby cows
frolicking about green
meadows as high snows
collapse into the
whitewater that flows to
yellow flowers
shadows their
snow
songs their trees
of birds
a three-day storm
becomes a week
of warm mornings hot afternoons
cool evenings stars over frogs
listen to the chorus play
your part in the call-
and-response
change
change
change
okay
okay
okay
Leath Tonino is a freelance writer and the author of The Animal One Thousand Miles Long, an essay collection about the wilds of Vermont, and The West Will Swallow You, an essay collection about adventures in the American West.