the spring-glad trees
have loosed their blossoms
All articles filed in spring
easter monday
in the park
the japanese magnolia is shedding
its petals
holy saturday
we planted the peas today
rolled their plump green bodies
into the black bacterial dust
gardeners call inoculant
and then tucked them one by one
under the soil
may day
thus has may begun
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april day
a rustle, a roar
branches sway, cottonwood leaves
shimmer in the wind
A cake for spring dreaming
As soon as our city’s stay-at-home protocols went into effect in March, I developed a manic craving for lemon-elderflower-flavored things.
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Books to warm your heart
These are old favorites (or new/newer favorites) that I come back to again and again because they only get better with re-reading. They’re cozy, funny, heart-warming, uplifting, maybe even inspiring.
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speedwell
i took a walk today a brisk huff ‘n’ puff up the hill and round the block to wake drowsing limbs from the torpor of sitting over-long at a desk and exorcise the mania of a mind too long confined between four walls as i walked along a mist hissed half-heartedly in my face the…
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two for joy
there’s warmth in the breezes
and dew on the grass
whisp’ring spring will soon be here
the ash seed
the wind was wild today
rocking the trees to and fro