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April 3, 2019

A cold spring: For two weeks or more the trees hesitated;
The little leaves waited, carefully indicating their characteristics.

—Elizabeth Bishop
  American poet (1911-1979)



Source:”Cold Spring,” in Elizabeth Bishop (Library of America) (buy from Amazon)




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