Friday, April 4, 2008

An April Storm from the Atlantic

Nail-hard, gale-driven rain
harrows the saucer magnolia.

Joy sorrow
judgment redemption
joint the outstretched limbs
body the purpled flowering
now scourged by rain and wind
scattered, plastered to pavement and mud.

Christ beauty – bodied forth –
descends again to earth.

Yesterday the sweet season adorned by blossoms.
Today again the tree of wintered severities.

Long, O long! for summer, for leaves, for leaves upon leaves!

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