Green Leaves Emerge Like Little

green leaves emerge like little
green stars on all the sticky branches
it is spring in the Emerald City and

aren't you so entranced whenever lite
green perfumes waft through:
these dollhouse shuttered windows

as children we gazed through
to wallpapers and needlepoint
patterned with roses?

now fingerpainted-green dogs bark
in thumb-printed swirls that
we remember-

they frisk in the sun
that can never set
on vari-colored landscapes

we don't have words for, yet-

mary angela douglas 20 october 2007/rev. 6-11 february 2010