April’s Amazing Meaning
April’s amazing meaning doubtless lies
In tall hoarse boys and slips
Of slender girls with suddenly wider eyes
And parted lips;
For girls will wander pensive in the spring
When the green rain is over,
Doing some slow, inconsequential thing,
Plucking clover;
And any boy alone upon a bench
When his work’s done will sit
And stare at the black ground and break a branch
And whittle it
Slowly; and boys and girls, irresolute,
Will curse the dreamy weather
Until they meet past the pale hedge and put
Their lips together.
—George Dillon
