April takes its name from the Latin word aperire, meaning ‘to open’
New life bursts forth from translucent red pomegranate tips on the branches of the handkerchief tree and I stand surrounded by a choir of lilac leaves as they open soft, furry, almost-purple buds and unfurl into delicate new leaves with blushed red tips sounding their notes to the warm bright spring sky
I am captivated, lifted, taken,
“I’ll show you how it’s enough”, says Rumi
Here in the middle of the afternoon
God’s wind breath blows through the Reed-flute world in front of my eyes.
The naturalists weekly tells us that we have entered the micro-season of “The Swallows Arrive.” This is the first micro-season of the mini-season of Clear and Bright. All the micro-seasons within Clear and Bright are:
- The Swallows Arrive (Apr 04 – Apr 08)
- Geese Fly North (Apr 09 – Apr 13)
- The First Rainbow Appears (Apr 14 – Apr 19)
The 72 micro-seasons were established in 1685 by Japanese astronomer Shibukawa Shunkai.
https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/04/07/micro-season-the-swallows-arrive-2023/
home again fluttering in the eaves barn swallows
from the broken bell the chatter of swallows nest building Jane Reichhold from A Dictionary of Haiku
