Laburnum Days

Do you remember
Under laburnum days
The lemon cascades
Brought to earth
By early summer rain?

The unfurling crosiate fern
Touched by diamond dew
A quenching fairy thirst
That caught my arm
Along the forest walk.

And now the pleasure pain
Just a memory
Of walking once again
To recapture
The poet's careless rapture.


JL March 7 15:52