SPRING EQUINOX IN 2025

(Thursday, March 20, 2025, 5:01 A.M.)

 

Wrens fly inside my home

Landing on a newly laundered sheet

Searching for a carnivorous breakfast

Nothing will satisfy—not even a fruity treat--only meat

On this morning of the Spring Equinox

I direct them to the compost pile

Full of rich earth and worms weaving in and out

Of little cities unaware the Sun is granting

Equal rights to both day and night

So shooing out protesting wrens

Closing my sliding glass door

Opening a burgeoning drawer of seed packets

I select some to celebrate the imminent arrival of Spring

Even though here in Florida we have year-round planting

Red is my favorite color so I choose cayenne peppers

They do well out in the rain and sun

Pot on the deck nitrogen-rich

Next I open an orange pack of gourds

And then yellow sunflowers because the squirrels

Seem too lazy to plant anymore

Selecting some green herbs reminds me

I've now done the first four chakras

Also the first four colors of the rainbow, fitting for Spring

Moving to turquoise I find one of my own envelopes

Some seeds I once found in the swamp

Labeled Nigella Damascena

Kinda turquoise-y called Blue Love in a Mist

For a moment I wander in a daydream but

Pull myself into reality

Fantasy is for maidens, not wise crones

The next color is indigo but sort of thought

I could stop now and look on the internet

But the beautiful weather is tempting and

As I move on to the final color, violet

I see lavender and laurel and almost all set

Outside once again, I begin to dig the earth

But OCD calls to me sometimes and there is now an empty space

Where the indigo should be and

Just can't make myself plant right now

In fact, despite horoscopishly moving into Aries

My birthday sign, a time of strength,

Suddenly resist celebrating today

What can I say?

We all have bad days but I never like to feel down

During the wonderful solar year celebrations due to my mood

So decide what’s needed is some food

And I hear an oven ding and here it is

Forgot I baked a banana walnut bread

Don't like to depend on food for my mood

Food disgraces how efficacious it is when using it for comfort

Shrugging, pour my third cup of rich, black espresso

And very soon I find myself looking for an indigo flower

Discovering Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia Australis)

Ordering online, happy knowing the empty earth will soon be

Overflowing with vibrant colors to commemorate this day

With multiple names including Ostara, Tavasi Suvo, or

Just plain

Spring Equinox…

 

© 2025 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE Spring Equinox 2025