SPRINGTIME

SPRING

BY LAURA BOURBONNAIS

SPROUTS OF SPRING singsong to one and all, plush buds sprinkling sleet streets into garish wonders.

cherry blossoms line the path, spellbinding smitten strangers submitting High Park to circulation, sunspecked Frisbees circling.

dwindling ducks doze in the shade, seagulls whirling into home base, toads studying grazing gazelles, readying their hind legs.

a toddler giggles over a pond, digging out pulsing worms, a scruffy dad in the shade of his ball cap, splashing her clean with stream water.