So,

I happen to be

Sitting on the step

The point of the tip of the calyx of the waiting bud

A foot from my eye

And then

It

Opens

While I watch

It opens out

The here of its green

And there in the dark

In with the leaf

You can just tell

There's a complete

Poem hiding

But not now

Not today

Instead here

After spring

after spring

Of watching

The far side

Of valleys

Raise that green

Day by day

I've now

Seen this

Happen

And now

So have

You

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