Climate Change

the purple crocuses showed up
as usual, early March.
Surprisingly late.
have they not heard of climate
change, did they not feel the
heat of the winter soil,
didn't the earthworms tell them
the news that has echoed
from Indonesia to Britain,
Greenland to Patagonia.
The earth is warming
the seas are rising
we are crying,
but you, purple crocus,
you are too late now to tell
us the world is warming, it
would have been news
last month.