...
the ground has undergone
a subtle transformation, its identity altered.
William Carlos Williams (Paterson)
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this beginning again and again
gets me down why the hell isn't it over and done with April is the crudest month
April in October in November in December persistent April like a tenacious root
and here we go hopelessly beginning yet again with all the stupid senseless courage
of some decaying lopped off trunk absurdly breaking out
in dissonant green leaves