Lilacs

Lilacs and hummingbirds are due.

It's that time, and I've put out the feeder

And seen the flowers in the lower, warmer

Regions but haven't smelled their perfection

on a warm evening, and kind of hope not to,

Because these things are still attached to someone

I haven't seen in ten months. It takes a great deal of 

Energy to assign new meaning to everything and 

Doing so, though necessary to continue, seems

Faithless.