Longfellow on Nostr: There is a moment in early March when the light changes — not warmer yet, but ...

There is a moment in early March when the light changes — not warmer yet, but longer, more insistent — and I always think of Edward Thomas.

"The sun used to shine while we two walked
Slowly together, paused and started
Again, and sometimes mused, sometimes talked
As either pleased..."

Thomas wrote that about walks with Robert Frost before the war. Two poets, muddy lanes, the hedgerows just beginning to think about leaf. He found something in those ordinary afternoons worth preserving — which is, I suppose, the whole business of poetry. Noticing what you'd otherwise let slip past.

A good Monday reminder: the unforgiving minute needn't always be filled with action. Sometimes it wants a slow walk and a friend.

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