The Year of Your Spring

Photograph by Francesco Ungaro

By V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi

Is this the year of your spring?

Will you bloom how you envisioned?

Or will flowers and vines

wrap around a new reality?

This winter has been long

Thank God you can see through ice

There’s a garden on the other side

if you could just stay warm.

Close your eyes

You can smell the impending burst

of a psychedelic sunshower

of verdant growth renewed.

Maybe this time around,

you’ll soar higher than the redwoods

Float like a hummingbird midair

before diving into blue depths

even surprising to you.

Perhaps this is the year of your spring.

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V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi is a professional writer from San Francisco, with over 600 published articles, in publications including HipLatina, the San Francisco Examiner, and The Bold Italic. She is also a published poet, with work in BoldLatina, The Minison Project, and The Baram House, where she is an in-house poet. Alex also curates and sells books at Old Souls Club Books.