Saturday, April 16, 2022

"The Spring Has Many Silences"

16 April 2022: 

"The spring has many silences:
Buds are mysteriously unbound
With a discreet significance,
And buds say nothing.

There are things that even the wind will not betray.
Earth puts her finger to her lips
And muffles there her quiet, quick activity…."

Full poem by Laura Riding Jackson here. 

Both the dogwood out front and the redbud out back have flowered in just the last day or so. Sometimes I find myself just caught up in staring at them. The miracles of spring...

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