Water is the perfect resource: Malleable, unladen when pure, Ready to heat up into the air And willing to wait in solid Until it's time to flow again. Spring brings that final stage But skips from rivers to mud It's the season of down and up And down and sideways Whose coat is filled with unshowered ticks. There's no more hesitation Hydrology loves the sun Each cloud will become vegetation As the ponds bring back their scum. High design is lower brown When green returns and flowers rise To health to life to death far off This season sputters, stutters, coughs.