Look out! Be careful!! Don't step THERE....... you'll damage the goods of the beautiful beginnings of the most beautimous lawn in the world, and knowing you, it will be without one shred of guilt filling your socks!
That first one, that dandelion that has managed to find that first little fist of green grass with which to compliment its color so brightly, that mouthful of yellow and greens-green combined to make the awesomest (non-standard in its use of the language but non-standard colors deserve non-standard words) of two ordinary and to-be expected plants.
The first one! So precious is it's flow, it must be preserved, at least until the second comes along, or the second one's third, or fourth.
Keep it up at least for the day, or hour, or time spent checking out the colors of the world. As they are about to paint us all in, and will mark the spring again, and the trees will fill out, the grass will all turn green, and the colors will roll us all over, and will blow us from the palms of their hands, to where the wind will share us among the day's moments.
Ralph Peck
Photograph by Marla Bolton
Eufaula Oklahoma Just Up From The Lake
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