Remembering how Olivia

planted crocuses around

a tree before an illness 

in an old Walton’s episode, 

I too planted them, needing

something to look forward

to. It was a warm October

morning a few weeks before 

surgery when I knew the 

unwelcome visitor in my lung 

had to come out and the 

road to recovery would be 

long. Now here you are 

pushing up your green shoots 

and opening your blooms.

I am still here and both

of us have made it through

the dark days of winter 

and are turning our heads

toward the healing sun.

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