Une hirondelle
ne fait pas
le printemps
One swallow. One
hirondelle, watercolor
brown. Does not make.
Ne fait pas. The Spring.
Le printemps.
Nor one seed, a field
of rippling golden wheat.
Or one drop of white-blue rain
the weep of April.
But one glance from you—
a flock, a field, a flood!
—l.l.b.