• Poetry

    Contemplating the Season With
    Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Spring”

    I’d been browsing earlier in the week for poems about spring, with the intention of sharing one or two on this blog’s or my personal Facebook page. Find a lovely photo of a flower or mustard field to accompany it, rejoice in all the rebirthing metaphors and imagery, have a feel-good post in time for the feel-good day of Easter Sunday, when the very heavens (or at least all our cultural icons) seem to sing in lush harmonies about the joys of the season. And so here popped “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay onto my computer screen—and there went…