Best wishes for April

Yonder is April
Weeks of promise
and tender winds

Whether at noon
or
hurried evenings
the common Raven will
flap wings for her children
to seek shelter, for cloud's
darkest hangs precariously,
and narcissus only grins

Wild narcissus in April bloom

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