May 15 - 20 Week 6/72
memories of my grandmother
have been walking with me
as pots of pansies appear on porches
and the heady scent of lilacs arrives
long before they come into view
thoughts of Pearl kneeling with her flowers
bring a smile and an enveloping warmth
she loved time spent in her gardens
more than even the much anticipated
Saturday broadcast of Off to the Races
with her tickets to each race tucked into
the pocket of her soft, cotton apron
today a trifecta emerges before me
as Wake-Robins are discovered
flowers triumphantly growing
from a whorl of three green leaves
drawing closer to admire these tributes
to the rule of three I am mindful
others are menacingly close and so
I leave them be and slowly approach
the weeping cherry, a cardinal's nest
secreted in its branches with
two young still tucked deep inside