a poem

I get the Writer's Almanac delivered to my email inbox each day and today there was a poem that I wanted to share. Enjoy!

Eager
by Kim Garcia

Above the snow, a single maple holding forth
its dying flame. Among the feats of Nature:
the wild
greening from dry bulb, sour alchemy of rot, a rusty
handprint of lichen;
the eager
space-seeking species springing up after fire,
as though they took no lesson from destruction
but to begin again, twice as joyful.