Tulip Blooms
Tim W. Brown
The tulip bulbs
of March do not
unfurl their leaves
in my neighborhood,
where those who care
enough to plant
cannot uproot cement,
nor crowd out broken
bottles that sprout
furiously in yards.
So I think as I walk
to work, pavement
a badly stretched
canvas, whose borders
could stand tulip
blooms polka dotting
yellow, red and blue.
