It is not really spring yet although a weird February tried to fool us with several warm days before handing us back to single-digit temperatures.
There is a period in New England when the weather teeters back and forth between winter and spring — and inevitably brings to mind the e.e. cummings poem “[In Just-].” It’s a happy poem reminding one that as long as there are springs, there will always be excited children running outdoors to play, hollering back at someone in the house, “I don’t need a coat — it’s hot!”
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it’s
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
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Cute poem! We will be seeing mud in a few days as the weatherman is calling for rain.. and more rain for most of next week. Things will really start greening up then!
I love knowing what’s going on in your warmer time zone. It helps me look forward.
That’s a great poem–I love the way the kids’ names are run together to make it clear how inseparable friends are at that stage. Our weather is like yours–we were teased with what seemed it must be spring and now . . . very cold again. Sigh.
And snow tomorrow. But my 4-year-old granddaughter pointed out many signs of spring yesterday, so I know it’s coming.
I like that too, about the friends’ names.
That first photo is so breathtaking.
The sky on fire, pixillating.
And, I also like the shadows of the street signs–a geometry lesson, or shadow blocks. And the two stick-figure men in the yellow signs, walking off in opposite directions, makes me smile.
Alice through the Looking Glass.
A poem about joy and renewal. We need such sentiments.
I like the headlong exuberance of it, the way “wee” sounds like “whee!” and the way children seem to be tumbling out of doors on the first warm day.