More than a thousand buds have arrived in the garden.
Yesterday I looked and there were none.
Tangled into a slump of sullen green
and bursting with sap they’ve over-run
the armandii buddleia jasmine vine
and cluster by cluster flick their swollen thumbs
or sit on their fingers waiting to open,
point their beaks up at the little sun.
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