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April 3, 2005


spring gloom
posted by soe 12:13 am

I’m feeling uninspired today. The rain seems to weigh me down and I’m hoping the deluge will end soon. Tomorrow will be better with an early farm market (and hopefully the season’s return of blueberry scones) as well as the 12:05 p.m. return of major league baseball to D.C. (complete with an appearance by my Mets).

I think this poem, “April,” by Sara Teasdale embodies the duality of early spring.

April
by Sara Teasdale

The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.

Yet the back-yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree —
I could not be so sure of spring
Save that it sings in me.

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