Susannah Habecker © 2018
by George Burns
HOW IS IT
the small fisted buds
on the maple trees
uncurl themselves
against the sky
small
green fingers
turn
so easily
the huge page
of the season
silently turn
this granite mountain
from winter to spring
George Burns’ poetry has been published in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Comstock Review, and Caesura. In 2004, his poem, “Partly Heliotropic,” was the winner of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Contest. You can see more of his poetry at thepoetryofgeorgeburns.com.