I can see Spring
and her fine colours 
from afar.
I long to stand under the 
cherry blossom tree as
it rains confetti down on me.
Instead I stand in real rain, hazy,
pattering, smatterings of daffodils
pressed against barbed wire.

Spring from quarantine

I stand in the dilapidated chapel.
Paint peeling from the walls like the bark
of a silver birch.
Dull light cascades in from high archways.
I now approach the manor, in through 
the kissing gate kissed with moss and dew.
A ****** of crows battle across the&nbsp;&nbsp;battlements in still air.