Laura Sandage: Listen
February Is Green
(Laura Sandage)
FEBRUARY IS GREEN
Laura Sandage and Ray Frank 2004
California winter
Veiled in darkness and mist
Outside rain on the window pane
Pounds a watery fist
Fog blankets the valley
Skies are heavy and gray
Underfoot, new green shoots
Spring's not far away.
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February is green
Underneath a coat of gray
Green hills will fade
Come golden May
February is green
Even on a rainy day
Green river wash
My heartache away
The orchard floor is carpeted
Sourgrass in bloom
Narcissus, violet
Spread their sweet perfume
Mystery of morning fog
Cloaks it all in dew
Cooling breeze, honeybees
Swiftly passing through
chorus
Mossy rocks like jewels
Among the budding trees
Sun peeks through, paints them anew
With living filigrees
Bare branches silhouette
Against the evening sky
While up above, in wild love
Two geese fly by
chorus