I thought it might be stormy today--it's the time of year when weather systems are on the move. But it looks like next week will be when the rains roll in.
I think of an earlier poem I wrote. I don't have as much time to write an essay today, so here's a poem for our Saturday, which captures this mid-April mood. We talk about the ides of March, but it seems to me that each month has its danger points.
The Ides of April
must be paid. Both winter and summer battle
for dominance and rip the landscape
with tornadoes and late spring snows.
Good battles evil, captives set free
by way of forced and bloody frenzies. Refugeesdriven from their homes trudge down dusty
roads towards a desert destiny of freedom.
A gospel of radical love battles entrenched
orthodoxy. We must sacrifice our lustfor structure and rules, our yearning
for punishment. We must arc our minds
towards grace and unconquered redemption.
We must be as flowers who battle
against the frozen ground, who thrustthemselves towards a distant sun
in the hope of a future warmth,
a profuse explosion of fiery blooms.
And here's a photo of a fiery bloom from my recent trip to Hawaii. We were surrounded by floral loveliness, but this plumeria/frangipani tree captured me like no other:
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