March 20, 2007
Video: Let it be spring
Video by Duncan Adams | Produced by Hunter Wilson
If you were spring, you'd be exhausted.
Not from all that seasonal budding and blooming and germination.
No.
You'd be dead tired because, for centuries, you've been wrung like an old dishrag by poets seeking metaphors for fresh starts.
And don't even mention T.S. Eliot and April. That cruel quote has been milked more often than an aged Guernsey.
In his song "Jungleland," Bruce Springsteen, a working class poet, included this lyric: "And the poets down here don't write nothing at all/They just stand back and let it all be."
On Tuesday, on the cusp of spring, Roanokers were letting it be or working it out on a day just shy of glorious.
They were clipping and pruning, sawing deadwood, delivering mail and washing cars.
Surely there's a metaphor in there somewhere, but sometimes a flower is just a flower.
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