TheBanyanTree: Mud Season in the Northeast

[Laura]

On 14 Apr 2010 at 9:52, LaLinda wrote:

> As the spring creeps in
> the dusky light of clouds
> charcoal at the bottoms
> heavy with rain
> I don't want to look at the earth
> and its bare, frantic trees and swollen
> creeks and brown ground like scorched earth
> after a trauma, which in the northeast, we call winter.

Wow.  This is so evocative!  I can almost smell the rotten, musty smell, 
and almost feel the cold, wet breeze, almost see the green mist of buds on 
the trees.

Good stuff, LL.

The imagery, I mean.  Not the mud.

-- 
Laura
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