February 1, 2009

first sighting



just north of Alabama’s
southern border,
just north of the
Florida line,
around a sloping bend
cradling a catfish pond on the left
and a cotton patch up on the right,
with a few too many shirttails
scattered like stubborn, dirty snow,
where the winter farm landscape is
at rest between seasons,
about to be stirred
by spring
I saw the first daffodils