Missing and Missed: Blue Sky of Spring

Puerto Morelos April 2013

I chose this picture
to help me remember
a blue sky

On this May 4, 2013
Saint Paul Minnesota
blue sky is a distant memory

Or at least so it feels
while California is
battered by relentless wild fires
we are simply living under gray skies
daily snow
record snow fall
Southern MN in May!

And though I miss the
warmth of spring
more
more
more than anything
I miss the
Blue Sky of Spring
in Minnesota.

I am working hard on
patience
knowing the sun shines
above the clouds
that will leave
then I will STOP
everything
and go outside
to see
to feel
the sun
savor the
Blue Sky of Spring.

And pray that the
dangerous and destructive
live changing
fires fueled by strong winds
in California
abate soon
very
very
very soon!