Kickass and spring strip tease

Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on the report from the keeper and Phyllis as they cruise the countryside appreciating the fact that, like the staring deer on the barren hillside and the cows with muddy feet, they are here to greet yet another spring:

To the land in March:

Strip tease naked now,

Snowy tease-garb gone.

You pose in proud nudity

And promise the ultimate.

Your great green robe

Is nowhere and everywhere–

At your feet, in every tree.

“Put it on! Put it on!”

Cry the voices everywhere.

And the band plays a polka

While you comply.