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Spring Rain

Text of Poem

An early frost last fall
caught the syringa bush
full of sap and burst its twigs,
I planned to dig it up.

Wait, you said, for one warm rain
the bush still lives if its wounds
bleed, and then broken bark will be
transfigured by white flowers.

First Line
An early frost last fall
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1968
Original Citation
Ladies Home Journal (April 1968) 89.
Complete Poems
203
Hearst Collections
Word Count
47
Poetic Form
open
Themes
Twitter Quote
the bush still lives if its wounds / bleed