5:13 PM

(Perhaps you haven't noticed. Perhaps you've been too busy wrapping that warm wool winter coat around your freezing limbs and you think winter will never be over. But the sun set later today than any day this year, shone brighter on the north side of Houston Street and you stood squinting at the stoplight, silently blissful. You woke with the light beaming into your courtyard window and you stretched and yawned as from a deep sleep not only literal in the night. They called you from the west coast and said the first flowers were making their way out of the ground. You know it's too soon yet, but it's coming.

It isn't time
But it will be.)