Had this notion on the way to work about the color of the world seeping up toward the sky in spring but on the way home I saw my first of the wonderful white flowering shrubs that to me really speak to Spring’s official arrival.<\/p>\n
After four, maybe five months of the sky
\nthrowing down sifts and squalls and bucket loads
\nof snow and more snow and piling it up
\nin the normal fashion of New England
\nAnd it seems to many deeper and more
\nsnow than it has to be to make a point.
\nMiraculously it all vanishes
\nbut the woods stand brown and empty awhile.
\nThe earth at last yields color to the world –
\nthe new grasses shining in golden light
\ntreetops pink and impossibly yellow
\nwaiting for leaves to burst summery.
\nShrub rows of white petals wind-tossed laughing
\nspring flecks falling across the joyous sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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