Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Spring

I'm stuck in this kind of loop. It's like a negative feedback loop, but not really by the strictest definition of that thing. I'm just feeling stuck. It must be March. Spring can't be finished fast enough for me. Here's what Edna St. Vincent Millay has to say about that:

SPRING

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots,
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

--Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Second April

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