Naked bushes still shiver like kids
\non a beach, teeth chattering, fingers turning blue.
\n
\nWinter has overstayed her welcome, again,
\nthe guest who won\u2019t leave after the nightcap.
\n
\nAnxious to launch those famous showers,
\nApril throats an annoyed \u201ca-hem\u201d to the cold.
\n
\nA full moon quilts the reservoir in silver as
\nvestiges of snow on the roof tick their way to the dirt.
\n
\nOne sunrise, I spy from the window still fuzzy with frost,
\ngreen specks, determined, pushing through softening earth.
\n
\n <\/p>\n
Lorraine Amada is a writer and poet who teaches English as a Second Language (ESL). A New York native, Lorraine currently lives in the Bay Area. Recently two of her poems, “Suburban Snowstorm” and “Praise the Rain” were published in Pilcrow and Dagger magazine. Lorraine’s themes – the wonders of nature and animal life and the imperfect connections of humans – were captured in her first collection, The Rhythm of Healing<\/em>.” She is currently finalizing her next collection of nature poems, Praise the Rain.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Naked bushes still shiver like kids on a beach, teeth chattering, fingers turning blue. Winter has overstayed her welcome, again, the guest who won\u2019t leave after the nightcap. Anxious to launch those famous showers, April throats an annoyed \u201ca-hem\u201d to the cold. A full moon quilts the reservoir in silver as vestiges [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[303,304],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-photo-by-martyn-e-jones","tag-pixabay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}