The Persistence of Seasons

The warmth of summerstruggles to staysometimes until November,while leaves cling to treeslong after they’ve had their day.Then snow patchescoldly refuse to departuntil washed away by April showers.But spring’s chartreuse leaves,blossoming treesand fountains of forsythiatoo readily give wayto summer’s placid green.(30 December 2010) The poems are in topical series, the current series being “The…