As our world returns to flow state

Today one of the dogs lead us on a stroll up to the local pond. It's still mostly snow and ice covered, but the results of the past few days worth of snow melt are beginning to show. There's a stretch along the right-hand side of the  pond, near the base of the conifers, where the melt is beginning to accumulate. Several areas are showing the beginnings of open water. Soon it will begin to actively flow.

snow and ice covered pond, softening and opening

Photo by J. Harrington

The end of the driveway is slowly turning from snow and ice to mud. That's another sign that early Spring's mud season is on its way. We've even seen a "60" high temperature appear in the extended forecast, the day before a thunderstorm is expected. We're really curious to see if that forecast will be accurate. This afternoon is when we're going to see if one of the local sugarbushes is in action, so we'll close now. Tonight we've been promised blueberry pancakes with maple syrup so this has the potential to be a really good day. Stay safe, healthy, masked, warm and dry, please.

Mud Season

By Tess Taylor

We unstave the winter’s tangle.

Sad tomatoes, sullen sky.

 

We unplay the summer’s blight.

Rotted on the vine, black fruit

 

swings free of the strings that bound it.

In the compost, ghost melon; in the fields(,)

 

grotesque extruded peppers.

We prod half-thawed mucky things.

 

In the sky, starlings eddying.

Tomorrow, snow again, old silence.

 

Today, the creaking icy puller.

Last night I woke

 

to wild unfrozen prattle.

Rain on the roof— a foreign liquid tongue.

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