Two Old Poems

      More Letters From Paradise
           Two Old Poems

              Spring
        Frogs are singing
         spring is here!
You can see it in the buckets
of seeds in the feed store
Piles of green plastic hoses
swollen buds of maple trees
    and lilac bushes
    but outside it is
        snowing

     Planting Time
  Old timers say the
     best time
   to plant corn
is when the oak leaves
  are the size of a
   squirrel's ear
 I took my problem
to the local expert
in my front yard tree
He did most of the
    talking
but I did get a
good look at his
     ears

         Aloha
         Grant