April Comes Like An Idiot

Red roses in front of a lamp taken with iphone
Ben’s Roses. iphone 12 Pro iColorama app

Life in itself

Is nothing,

An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,

April

Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay from poem Spring