What Spring Looks Like from Space

Today I rearranged the fake flowers.

​I placed the fake grape hyacinths

on the fireplace mantel, put the fake spring bouquet

on a table by the couch, the fake succulents

on a shelf just above the kitchen sink.

The real daffodils in the front yard were bent low 

last evening by more than six inches of spring snow.

I doubt the tulips along the driveway

will survive the vagrant deer that come down

from the mountain this time of year.

Did you see that satellite photo

of the spring equinox?

Here in the western hemisphere

we’re tilted toward the sun,

not shaded by darkness, 

even though it feels like it.