“the contraries are not easy to reconcile” ~ Gottfried Benn, from “Divergences”

Forsythia and Redbud Mingling
by Rodney Williams (rodwilliams) on 500px.com

                   

Last Spring

Fill yourself up with the forsythias

and when the lilacs flower, stir them in too

with your blood and happiness and wretchedness,

the dark ground that seems to come with you.

Sluggish days. All obstacles overcome.

And if you say: ending or beginning, who knows,

then maybe—just maybe—the hours will carry you

into June, when the roses blow.

~ Gottfried Benn (trans. Michael Hofmann)

                   

Music by Liz Lawrence, “When I Was Younger”

 

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