Spring profusion

In all its glory spring has arrived

with green translucent leaves

exuberant multiplication of millions

through to the smallest filamental detail of fibre

I stand today under that one tree

a lime tree

trying to capture that one tree

in a whole number

but at the first branch

I have lost count

providing the proof that

spring cannot be explained by an equation

Oeke Kruythof

Jenny Narraway translation/transcreation