ESSENTIAL IN SPRING
selfishness is essential in spring
as essential as giving
or love
and necessary for both
it is selfish to sit on the deck and
feel the spring air on my face and
do
nothing
what is it that I am doing
what is it that I want
is it the words which will throw themselves
across the horizon like those northern lights and lead you to
me
you too are fragile and
you too will surely break like the ice above the doorway when spring
hits you in the face
hits you with a lily in the yard or
ploughed earth
hits you just when you thought you were dead like the barren winter land
and you find yourself with seeds in your palm
and plans
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