Imagining My Northern Mother as a Southern Girl

tulip trees and camellias

flash spring fashion

reds and pinks and whites

my mother would of loved

April and May

arriving in February

I wonder what

she would have decorated

her yard with

I imagine a magnolia

yellow day lilies

and something purple

like grandpa’s irises

that bloomed

in May

she would have grown

vegetables year round and

still complained

about dad blowing grass

in her flower beds

when he mowed the lawn

2-11-20