Returning

Andrea Vasile

The bloom of our apple trees
Is long over,
Both trees are beginning to hang with fruit.
Their fullness giving shade
to the newly planted ferns,
that reach upward and wave.

The yellow coneflowers open
to the summer sun
near the log garden.

Wild strawberries growing over
Filling in spaces the pansies
were last year.

One last tulip stem remains
of the bulbs planted in the fall.
Its leaves gone, petals lost,
just a brown twig
waiting for the wind
to whisper,” it’s time.”

The tall ornamental grasses sway
in the breeze and dance with
memories of sunny days past.

Mint scents the air
where the robin redbreast
plays in the grass
looks at me
and sings
”Welcome home.”

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Growing up in Ottawa and New Jersey, Andrea is greatly inspired by nature and the ever-changing city. She has written ever since she won a contest for Valentine’s poetry in The Ottawa Journal in 1979. Andrea found continued success in publications such as Clevermag, Turbula, Jones Ave, and Ascent Aspirations, and most recently in The Basil O’Flarhety, Feminist Voice, and Event Horizon Literary Magazine Issue 9. Andrea received a third-place honour from the Poet Laureate of Ottawa. She finds our world changing in many puzzling and curious ways and feels the need to speak out and also to remind us of the goodness we challenge for.

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