"A Death in March". 4 of 12.
Even so, the Spring goes forward.
The rind of the trees weepy with sap. No spigot to carry it off.
From here to the other side, ice is motley. The river's current
expression: a stutter of ice cakes on the shore. Fret of spume.
Some days, though, we waken to snow,
fugacious erasure of mud and broken branches.
We feel the setback. Want the spectacular squalor
of Spring: its colourless smear. There's no word for that.
For snow falling, fugue slow, through fog. Earth and air
unable to settle what it's to be. Now is after. Or, ahead?
Interrugnum: Its beauty is brutal. A raw wind through bereft.
-- Anne Compton
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