After being beaten down by one of the harshest Michigan winters yet, early hints of spring are finally beginning to materialize. The gray is getting a little less gray and people are looking less like their outerwear, and more like themselves. No wonder spring is associated with rebirth and newness; as nature comes back to life, so do we. After spending some well-deserved time under the warmth of the sun, I feel the Ann Arbor start to thaw. Be soft with my scribblings.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the sun came out today and so did you.<\/p>\n
coaxed out by warmth and distant birdsong,\u00a0a small flower started growing from my collarbone.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
i fall in love too fast<\/p>\n
i fall in love too hard<\/p>\n
i want it all at once,<\/p>\n
like wanting to climb the nonexistent branches of an infantile sprout.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s the promise that hurts the most.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
in the teachings of mother nature,<\/p>\n
good things come to those who wait so,<\/p>\n
i\u2019ll bide my time,\u00a0i won\u2019t rush,<\/p>\n
but i will recognize<\/p>\n
when the plumule becomes\u00a0a bud, becomes a stem, becomes leaves, becomes a flower.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
please don\u2019t wilt, s<\/i>tay as you are.<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
i am the hug of humid morning air.<\/p>\n
i am the gentle fingertips of a penetrable ray.<\/p>\n
i am the wisps of a stretching cloud.<\/p>\n
i am the golden dust particles that hang inches above the grass at dusk.<\/p>\n
i am the lain blanket on our sticky sweet night.<\/p>\n
one flower became two strewn across my chest.<\/p>\n
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***<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the sun left today and so did you.<\/p>\n
so i left<\/p>\n
the door of my house open<\/p>\n
and stood in the middle of the street<\/p>\n
away from the streetlights<\/p>\n
so that i may look upon the stars how they were intended to be seen.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the only stars that are visible are ones that are dying.<\/p>\n
i’m embarrassed to ask so much,<\/p>\n
to have this audacity,<\/p>\n
to demand answers from a thing slipping from existence.<\/p>\n
is this the only choice?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the breeze just barely disrupted the abandoned sneakers on the power lines, but somehow<\/p>\n i can\u2019t hear myself breathe anymore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n my eyes betrayed me as I continued to stare at heaven\u2019s fated departures for my missing virtue.<\/p>\n i failed to notice that my flower petals had fallen, the petals drifted into the wind,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and left me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After being beaten down by one of the harshest Michigan winters yet, early hints of spring are finally beginning to materialize. The gray is getting a little less gray and people are looking less like their outerwear, and more like themselves. No wonder spring is associated with rebirth and newness; as nature comes back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":10789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10858,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions\/10858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}