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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

At Last

The Willow

I always put my hands on this willow and thank it and another one close by. À poem I wrote about them long ago got published and I thank them for that. Today I thanked them for showing me spring at last

Like young girls’ hair drying in the sun

The birds were singing away – except for these two ducks who were enjoying lunch from the lake-bed

Mum and Dad up-tails both
More blood root springing from dead leaves
Beloved dandelions
And these outside the park on a bit of waste ground

Now, maybe someone can tell me what this is

I searched on the net

It said poplar or alder but the extraordinary thing is that this poor tree was split during a winter storm but has still managed to keep enough life in it to put out these signs of life.

Frankly, I know how it feels. This winter and a health preoccupation cracked me but…. Today I pop got an appointment for this week with a specialist and hope to be on the road ( Camino, silly) this fall.

Birds going nuts this am and I could have kept them company all day.

À red-winged blackbird was squawking away

Enjoy. Soon enough we’ll be complaining of the heat!

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