Amitosis

Amitosis


Whether it be blackberry blossoms
festooned with thorns,
or a movie star’s children cashing in
the family moniker like a casino marker,
or a politician’s prodigy strutting short
on the world’s stage,
or a rosy-cheeked nephew
conjuring memories of arm wrestling
with your older brother,
or the return of the Monarchs from Mexico
reinstating your need to fly
in some of your dreams,
or those damn weeds snaking
from the fissures they created
in your driveway—
with the arrival of March 21st,
one sparkling insight overrides
the dun doldrums of winter’s blight;
from the root of the old one,
a new one has sprung.


Glenn Buttkus March 2010