Forsythia

coming home yesterday
stopped at the end of the driveway and picked some twigs of forsythia
no yellow showing on the buds yet
none the less the arrangement in a huge glass bucket is quite stricking

so many years now i have been picking branches , bringing them in to bloom
already some wind fallen branches of plum have bloomed in big vases so lovely
the forsythia takes me back to the home i grew up in...most years i keep my eye out for piles of pruning to bring in and watch as the spring comes in

one of my favorite "forcings" were fat maple shoots two or more feet long
the buds getting bigger and bigger and covered in sap
the sticks themselves so straight and strong
watching this incredible sexual energy
and the cycle of life that continues