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Spring arrives at 1:26 pm (or some such time)
Spring Has Returned
Spring has returned. The earth is
like a child who knows poems.
Many, many…
– Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Charles Haseloff)
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4 Comments
1. Gin replies at 20th March 2006, 11:13 am :
Sheesh! January was more like spring than today! My bones say so, if not my eyes. But then, this is Kentucky…..
2. sherry replies at 20th March 2006, 11:26 am :
Ah yes — our poor old over-optimistic daffodils get stung again.
3. Gin replies at 20th March 2006, 12:51 pm :
FWIW, it’s spitting snow outside right now. Bah! Wake me when it’s 80, please.
4. Charlie replies at 20th March 2006, 7:03 pm :
Sherry, this poem by James Still is one of my favorites on putting winter behind us. charlie
Spring on Little Carr
Not all of us were warm, not all of us.
We are winter-lean. our faces are sharp with cold
And there is the smell of wood smoke in our clothes;
Not all of us were warm, though we hugged the
fire
Through the long chilled nights.
We have come out
Into the sun again, we have untied our knot
Of flesh: We are no thinner than a hound or mare,
Or an unleaved poplar. We have come through
To the grass, to the cows calving in the lot.
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