The Beautiful Not Yet - Carrie Newcomer

Spring is humming

Bits of something

A melody the simple part

A song that I once knew by heart

Juniper, wild indigo

Foxglove, lupine, Queen Ann’s lace

Will be coming any day

The restlessness

The quickening

The almost but

Not yet

Muddy boots, last year’s leaves

Every spring that came before

All they were and something more

The restlessness

The quickening

The almost but

Not yet

Do you see, do you see, do you see it

Take a breath

Oh, the restlessness

The beautiful not yet

There’s a stirring

There’s sweetness

At the edge of in between

I feel it nearly trembling

The restlessness

The quickening

The almost but

Not yet