I have to eat the spring

Gulp down its green life

Bite the buds

Chew on the writhing stalks

Swallow green energy

I have to eat the spring

Winter was a meagre time

An era of starvation

Spring is full and wide and deep

Its promise speaks deliciously to me

I have to eat the spring

Nibbling it won’t be enough

I have to make a banquet out of spring

Swallow it whole

No more to gnaw

On winter’s dry old bones

Spring snaps me into life

An overflow of burgeoning

And so I have to eat the spring

Devour its mighty song

And let it live within