Archive: April 14, 2011 - Gary Borders

An Ill Wind Blows This Spring

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. —   Bob Dylan |———| Apparently, the answer would be pollen. At least that’s all I see blowing in the Central Texas wind, which lately never ceases. I’ll wake up at night and glance out the second-story bedroom window, on the miniscule chance that it might actually be raining. What a quaint notion, April showers. There will be no raindrops lashing the windows, but the treetops sway as if dancing to an celestial salsa band. Night and day they swing, shaking off oak pollen by the wheelbarrow load in the yard. This is my first spring...

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