TIMING

How do the flowers know
when it’s their time? 

All winter, the perennials rest, 
wait and wait. 
What motivates the change? 
Something in the air? 
Hearing our voices again
on morning walks? 

Linzi Garcia is the author of Cravings (Meadowlark Press, 2025) and Thank You (Spartan Press, 2018), as well as the co-author of Live a Great Story (Analog Submission Press, 2019) and While Away: Travel Poems (Spartan Press, 2022). She resides in Emporia, Kansas, where she serves as the poetry editor and publicist for Meadowlark Press. Linzi is a recipient of a NextGen Under 30 Kansas Award and Kansas Governor’s Arts Award.