He says that cold springs
keep down parasites
and make for verdant summers
and he says it as though
everybody knows
I didn’t know, I say
and in fact I do not know now
but I take your meaning
and will appreciate this day
for the day that it is
no use whining over
the weather, spring
springs when it springs
Apparently that was not his point
mostly he was just citing a fact
and by then we had doubted away
a portion of its factness
I checked my facts and his
cold winters keep down gypsy moths
but it takes a colder day than this
to kill the eggs
larvae can be washed away or rotted
during wet springs
Today was partly cloudy
and in the 40’s, give-or-take
regardless I think
I’ll try to remember
the point I thought he made
which he has made to me before
moths not withstanding
let the day
be the day