May

A Time to Plant and Sow

By: Charles Giuliano - May 24, 2015

May

Tulip and Magnolia trees
In full bloom
Along Comm Ave
Staying at St. Botolph Club
Spring visit to Boston
Following most brutal
Winter on record
Huge piles of snow
Now gone
Opening night of Pops
Home in the Berkshires
Days warm like summer
Then bitter and mean
How arbitrary
True to New England
Raising then dashing hope
Back road to Pittsfield
First night of summer theater
So lush and green
Rolling hills
Orchard in bloom
Laid out in well tended rows
Back yard
Working the flower beds
Hands all bashed
Tough getting up and down
Honest peasant labor
Like Sicilian and Irish ancestors
Blunt crude hands
To plant and sow
Still frost at night
When to put in tomatoes
Yet again hopes of harvest
Crops that never flourish
Like Seven Plagues of
Biblical Egypt
Actually
Gorgeous Adams
With stunning view
Across the meadow
Our ever changing movie
Mt. Greylock