"Small Poem for April"

This small poem honors

smooth blue pebbles,

waking up to a local

bird chorus each day,

the price of pollen

(sneeze-blasts), stalwart friends,

more and more and more light,

fair wages, and rest.

hans ostrom 

2018/revised 2022

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