“In the year of our Lord’s rising this April first” by Idris Anderson (poetry ’06)

In the year of our Lord’s rising this April first

Easter and Fool’s day. Aren’t they the same?
Well yes, today anyway. And it’s spring,
cherry blossoms full out, blowing like snow,
scatterings of snow, for it has been cold
and the sky is castover, the air not clear,
trees hiving with bees humming one sustainable note,
electric tremblings,  hundreds of tiny fluorescent bulbs.
Light! Light! The sun has risen but is dimmed.

[…continue reading “In the year of our Lord’s rising this April first” as well as four other poems by Idris Anderson (poetry ’06) at Peacock Journal.]