In the Spring Garden

i

In a spring garden: peach trees full of flowers;
A pink shaded path; and your first steps.

ii

     See the garden full
     Of peach trees
     Full in bloom:
     Our path is pink with petals.
     I pause, and see
     You walk ahead:
     A vision in a world
     Of spring.

iii

In the flowering of spring, I saw
A petal fall.
How can it be:
That in the shadow of the petal
I saw you?

You stepped into a shadow and
Remade the world.
How can it be:
That you can animate the world
In small things?

iv

Spring, green and glowing,
Colours and scents the garden.

This clear grey stand of trees
Sheds substance with the cold:
It warms, and grows
Ethereal with leaves.

Into this warmth of spring
You step.
With you the wind
Shakes leaves into a cloud
Of all my senses –
My spring love,
Your quietude.