O sweet spontaneous (spring!)

I have so many favorite days: Family birthdays. January 1. February 29. Summer Solstice. The first day of Autumn. Winter Solstice. The first day of Spring. Especially the first day of Spring.

Today! is one of my favorite days!

Favorite days call for waffle breakfasts with friends and long walks with Petra. Favorite days ask for daydreams and chocolate.

Favorite days beg for e.e. cummings:

O sweet spontaneous

O sweet spontaneous

earth how often have

the

doting

 

          fingers of

purient philosophers pinched

and

poked

thee

,has the naughty thumb

of science prodded

thy

      beauty      .how

oftn have religions taken

thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive

gods

        (but

true

to the incomparable

couch of death thy

rhythmic

lover

          thou answerest

them only with

                            spring)

~ e.e. cummings

From Tulips and Chimneys, 1923.

Happy. Spring.

Late breaking addendum: oh, the moon in the middle of the night sky on the first day of spring... it's a beauty.

Comments

[cookiecrumb]

I celebrate with you! O joy!

[Anita]

Here's to mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful!

[rachel]

Yay! So fun to spring with you!
xo

[Tana]

Here in Santa Cruz, it is the week when you walk downtown and every breath is filled with the fragrance of flowering trees.

It smells fertile and light and naked all at once.

[Jennifer Jeffrey]

Mmm, sounds like we're all loving this gorgeous season.

Fertile + light + naked -- I love that, Tana -- very evocative.

Hope you're all out there enjoying it...