Early Spring at Dames Park

From this bench
I can see
Field No. 2.
where a

A brown stain
of bare
earth
runs along

its center.
I can only
assume
winter had

been so long
in leaving
that it became
bored out of its

own turf,
or so cold
that the ground
split as it

deeply furrowed its
grassy brow
in obvious distain.
How envious
it must be

of Field No. 3
where a young couple
has chosen to
play Frisbee

keep-a-way
with a very obliging
chocolate lab,
panting as he runs

back and forth
in the dew
of the mid
morning grass.