Jacqui Thewless - Spring

Exquisite vortices peel open like
the fists of multiple newborn babes.

But this bud-breakage
of unseen veins is the sweetest
on the Maple tree -
with colour of cherries dipped
in mint chocolate -

who would have thought it? !

Jacqui Thewless

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-280/