Random excerpts from My Spring Dictionary

Night queen – fluffy, rabbit-tailed, pink and white fur; found awake and swaying in the sun
Flame of the Forest – large plasticky, orangish red cups lined with flimsy, droopy petals; found burning with morning dew

Yellow Flower Tree – yellow tree – so yellow, and full of thick, juicy, custard-yellow flowers, it can make your eyes hurt
Pink Flower Tree – pink tree – so pink, and made of dense clusters of flowers, they look like little cumulus clouds made of strawberry ice cream

Little green thing by the stone (not to be confused with a Martian) – flimsy, translucent, aching-green seedling that sprouted its leafy limbs the previous night. Growing quiet and bright green, next to a stone.

Tiny sunflowers – small droplets of the large sunflower; exact look-alikes only 5 times smaller – imagined to have fallen off from the larger flower when it shook itself awake one Spring morning

Grey Spring Butterfly – restless, flitty, splitty patch of grey found flying in random zip-zap patterns, not looking for anything in particular

That bud-like flower – soft, dull-green bulbs full of what is Spring is made of, with petals lining its top; usually found where Grey Spring Butterfly flits about

Sigh, the blue sky – liquid copper sulfate blueness dotted with blinding white bits of fluff – sigh


Welcome, Spring!