Seasonal Raiment
It seems so innocent, this surge of spring,
this swirl of new fashion. For a few weeks,
we are impervious to death’s crispness:
It is not the time to learn lessons of loss.
Spring’s crime is that it strikes so suddenly –
exits as abruptly, then leaves us bare
against the summer swelter, when truth
is soldered to our eyes. The contrast
that crawls out from underneath
its cloak of many colors is almost
more than we can endure.
Janet Lynn Davis
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