Spring

Noun. The season of the year, occurring between winter and
summer, during which the weather becomes warmer and plants
revive, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the vernal
equinox to the summer solstice and popularly considered to
comprise March, April, and May; a time of growth and renewal.

Days like today remind me that Spring is almost upon us. Being my
favorite season of the year, I wanted to pause a moment and hail
its coming. I could think of no better way than by providing
anyone reading this with the excellent poem by William Carlos
Williams, Spring and All.
Enjoy. 

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—

They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—

Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf

One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted they
grip down and begin to awaken

-William Carlos Williams