We are excited to bring you our Spring '22 issue. It's been a long and difficult winter and now we can look forward to bees dropping honey as buds turn into lovely flowers, as we hope the coming days bring peace and love.
Our issue is a delight and we know you'll enjoy reading the wonderful work done by our artists. Enjoy.
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]
William Carlos Williams - 1883-1963
I
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken