April Showers

Shoots sprout through, lancing
The winter-hardened earth,
Sodden by spring rains.

Suppressed remorses breach
The stout retaining walls,
And rivulets seep down.

April was Eliot’s cruellest month –
Now I know why.

© Abie Alexander
Greenbelt, MD       April 8, 2021

April Showers