Spring Elements x 3

wind :

-to dry the chore jeans and splash pants that fill the clothesline

-to fluff up the matted leaves and stir the grasses to life

-to make tiny twisters that excite the lamb to frisk and hop

-happy air currents making a kite dance for hours after we tie its string to the shed door

fire:

-to burn the piles of trash we gather and diminish the pile of tree prunings to ash

-large brush piles reduced to a warm glow by nightfall

-hot bed of coals to fry and sizzle a coil of sausage

-a merry light to sit around as we all make our way to the house at days end

-spinning a perfectly toasted marshmallow to life in sweet laziness

water:

-last snow pile slowly seeping away in a trickle by the driveway

-pumping out the pool before re-lining it and making a waterway that streams by the calf pen where they come to sniff it and try it for a drink

-re-filling dog waterers and calf waterers in the heat of the day

-chortling of frogs coming from the small pond day and night, one large bass bullfrog voice coming from our swimming pool area as I rake away leaves

-fertilizing small peppers and tomato plants with the compost tea I made

-a jar of honey sweetened sun tea for the humans too. Hydrate!