There was suddenly sun spilling all over, and suddenly hyacinths everywhere. I have watched everything change so slowly that nothing ever seemed to move at all, and in my obstinate blindness, I didn't notice that the ground had thawed, never mind that it had begun to bleed spring.
I have never seen spring. In all honesty, I have never lived in any sort of weather – only the starched, air-conditioned bedroom in my parents' sickeningly stereotypical suburban concoction of a house, where nothing – not the dusty closed blinds or even a blade of grass – ever moved at all.
Here, there are magnolia trees that move, swaying in soft rhythm. They have peeled themselves like vinyl stickers off the backs of my windowpanes, and they really are alive. I know because they wave to me in flurries of dip-dyed pink petals – like a good diaphragm-laugh, or maybe like a good cry.
I have never laughed, or cried. But I cry at everything now – now that I see it is all alive. It must be what happens when you start living alone – growing pains – I imagine the hyacinths must get growing pains, too, from exploding like purple fireworks out of the frozen soil in no time at all.
about two months now since I moved out and have been living alone. feel like I'm actually in ... a life ... which is cool.