The First Flower of Spring

The first flower of spring isn’t a crocus. It’s not a viola. Nor is it an apricot blossom. Those surely those will be the first blossoms the pollinators seek out on a warm April day.

The first flower of this season is, instead, an unfurling of winter, a stretching of the past into the present, in the form of an intricate ghost flower.

A dahlia blossom the milkweed made. The wind swept seeds arrange themselves in perfect harmony at the base of the hill, so perfect I mistook it for a flower.

It tumbles around where the wind takes it like the glorious weed it is, and now, after the rain and snow and sleet has surely lodged itself into some bare earth to give a go at a new season.

It’s time we all made a go of this new season ahead. Where will. you lodge your seeds in these warming weeks?

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