Day 822 – Lawn speedwells (Watts)

Day 822 of the Daily Poems and it is a bright March day for us and for our poet Anthony Watts

Lawn speedwells

Stealthily, stitch by stitch, they infiltrate
the lawn’s tapestry with their lagoon of flowers:

suddenly, this bright March day,
they are everywhere, each replicated cup

a perfect sky, a milky-blue
presentiment of summer.  Yet the lightest breeze

will set them trembling on their filaments
like water – as though all heaven hung by a thread.

Anthony Watts