Poet’s Showcase: April
Insidious,
spring comes with flowers
then ice.
Here in a blue sky day
there are daffodils,
and soon freezing rain comes
onto glorious flowers
Others have called April
a cruel month,
and it is so indeed
when daffodils have touched the heart
and ice storms make them die,
despite the vernal equinox
and the pain of such as I
— Beverly Boyd lives in Lawrence.