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

Name one thing you survived that no one saw.

I survived it.
Parents torn apart by dislike and incompatibility,
Adults who didn't know me,
Siblings I no longer know the faces of,
Friends who are now so far away,
And ones who can't look me in the eye,

In the end...
I survived

and no one 
even 
blinked...