MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Roseanne Freed: Yoo-hoo, Spring

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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

Issue 34:	Sept. 2026
Poem:	57 words

By Roseanne Freed

Yoo-hoo, Spring

It’s May, and over here 
in Nova Scotia, 
the days are longer, 
coats are lighter, 
heads are hatless. 
Not today. 
Today the north wind 
sings an aria at forty-four mph. 

A few weeks ago crocuses 
painted the front lawns 
with white, red, purple. 
Last weekend hyacinths 
and daffodils danced for us.  
Today the arctic wind.

Bio: Roseanne Freed

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