COMING OF SPRING

BOY AND GIRL AND THEIR LOVE IN 1962

Coming of spring over the fields

she sitting there in the tall grass

 

talking of the effects of art on the

human mind and fragile heart and

 

you sitting there beside her your

hand near hers as it lay there and

 

you half listening to her words while

taking in a glimpse of thigh showing

 

where her skirt rides high out of the

corner of your eye and she saying

 

without the essence art life would be

a mistake and you lean forward and

 

kiss her neck sensing the softness of

skin the smell of sweet scent wishing

 

Rubens or Renoir could capture her

with brush and oils and by stretched

 

canvas held with the coming of spring

in this green field where songbirds sing.