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Spring Awakening



The sulking landscape, brittle, dreary, stained
with clutter like an airless alleyway,
ignites in fleeting brilliance, as if deigned
by Ceres that the heavens might display
a cherub's dabbled hint of virgin green
as prelude to a symphony of change.
In sudden rustlings playful sprites convene
in chatty complement to rearrange
their homestead; and a prankish sparrow swoons
and darts and teases; and a scheming squall,
whose grudging bitter grip, in rasping tunes
through weary pine, once dared to taunt and brawl,
acknowledges its weakening affair
by lifting faint hosannas to the air.





From 04/04/21: Arabica