Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Sublimely well, thanks to the seasonal prevalence of soil-warming, nurturing radiance of the sun returned to our northern hemisphere, urging shrubs, trees, perennials, to emerge from their winter stupor.
As the sap returns to its place above tree roots, life emerges and pale green shoots slip from dormant stasis to reclaim their birthright, proudly renascent, fragrant and lovely with flowers presaging fruits of a near-distant season, leaving us blissful with fulfillment and expectations.
Then, the elements intrude upon the idyll, swiftly transformed from ideal to unobligingly extreme. The cooling breeze has altered its shape, its acceleration, its function and benevolence to become a vile, destructive influence on gardens.
Whose parts of their sum total flail helplessly, as apple trees crack and swoon to the ground; irises and hydrangea, bellflowers, plaintain lilies, ranunculus, geraniums, splay in undignified distress.
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