What comes back. What we let back in. The long slow work of re-entering our own lives.

Return

A spring orbit. Something is loosening. This week we turn toward what is coming back, and what we are finally ready to let come back.

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees 

Early Spring

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.

The Thaw

Pruning
To cut away branches, to help new ones grow in, stronger, like a broken bone better than before, but it hurts, you don’t just break a bone for the sake of it, you can’t just cut something out on your own resolve. 
Yet still, people do cut away branches, and the plant is better for it. Cut away the bad spots, and the goodness can shine through