Glory Days

Lit Up — April’s Prompt: Distraction

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This spring sings with expert joy.
The trash-stenched trees that line the street,
Bradford Pears, bloom so white
that I don’t even want to care.

I saw a doe asleep with her
speckled prize beneath the awning
stretched across someone’s winter-
worn deck, just like the robins’ eggs…