FEBRUARY (Excerpt from “The Months”)
by Linda Pastan
After endless
hibernation
on the windowsill,
the orchid blooms—
embroidered purple stitches
up and down
a slender stem.
Outside, snow
melts midair
to rain.
Abbreviated month.
Every kind of weather.
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Read “The Months” in its entirety at poetryfoundation.org. Originally published in Poetry (October 1999).
Silver Birch Press 
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Lovely images for a February day! ~ Bette A. Stevens