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On the rock of no I founded my life.

Investigating options was not an option;

"no" was the universal response.

I needed no brick wall or moated castle.

I simply surrounded myself with nettles,

thickets of thistles,

and spiny shrubs,  

which flourished in the fertile soil of my fear.

 

It was not Spring that saved me—

not as such.

But Spring in the form of a Northern Knight

who braved the thorns and carried me

to the land of the short Spring—

short but splendid in its spare

and brief appearance:

The yellows!

The greens!

The brightness of pink-tinged blooms

that over the years

have softened the rock of no

to a definite maybe.

 

 

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