Daffodils whistle their yellow tunes
in small ensembles
along the edges of the greening grass
as tulips sing backup at stalks’ ends,
voices muted by their leaves:
not yet ready for their solos.
Two paces into the hazel wood’s jumble
of vine maples and cedar saplings …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Tom Wayman received British Columbia’s 2022 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts. His latest book is Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time (Harbour, 2020); a new collection of poems, How Can You Live Here?, is forthcoming in 2024. He lives in the Slocan Valley amid southeastern British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains.