<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class="">Spring Again</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Again the violet rises from the underground,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">the rose from Hades grows.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What rocked their lives into life<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">also shoved the mountains into skies,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">forged the wind that chiseled them,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">deepened already deep seas.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">God of the underworld, Pluto of the gold –<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">let me pay for the privilege of life,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">let me bow in gratitude <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">for eternal Time into which I came<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and through whose beaded curtain pass.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for the torture of the roots<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that made this spring of letters<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">flower on this page like iris, like ixia, <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">like eyes that write the air and see.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bruce Moody</p></div></body></html>