Toni Stone
401 Buck Hollow Rd.
Fairfax, VT 05454
how long i t takes
the other day we had linen shirts on and the white capri pants…
today, there is the wool vest, wool scarf and ugg boots. guh?
i always admire that my tulips have incredible stamina to be able
to deal with the stops and starts, the slips and slides of spring,
because that it’s here and then it’s not seeming to be here, is all part
of that it’s here at all! it’s not that it’s not spring.
it’s that this is what spring is.
yet every year i revert to thinking
maybe it will just be forever warm and getting warmer…
with never another frost night of snowflake.
oh how long it takes us to get it or get anything.
for that matter, one of our most persistent students
can’t seem to get that she needs to pay to live somewhere.
she lost a house from not paying her mortgage…
and now, she is three months behind on her rent..
is this what growing up looks like?
how long it takes to understand anything is long.
