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Spring Rain.

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When you don't clap, I'm
going to start to worry then.

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Now the rain is falling
freshly in the intervals

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between sunlight.

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A Pacific squall
started, no one knows

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where, drawn west as the drifts
of warm air make a channel.

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It moves its own way
like water or the mind

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and spills this
rain passing over.

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The Sierras will catch it
as the last snow flurries

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before summer, observed
only by the wakened

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marmots at 10,000 feet.

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And we will come across it
again as larkspur and penstemon

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sprouting along a creek side
above Sonora Pass next August.

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That's not the end of it.

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The gray jays of the mountains
eat larkspur seeds which cannot

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propagate otherwise.

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To simulate the
process, you have

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to soak gathered seeds all
night in the acids of old coffee

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and then score them gently
with a very sharp knife

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before you plant
them in the garden.

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You might use what was
left of the coffee we drank

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in Lisa's kitchen, visiting.

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There were orange poppies
on a table in a clear glass

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vase stained near the bottom
to the color of sunrise.

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The unstated theme was the
blessedness of gathering

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and the blessing of dispersal.

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It made you glad for beauty
like that, casual and intense,

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lasting as long as
the poppies last.

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And for kitchens and
friends and fresh starts.

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James had never seen
the coast before.

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Carol was leaving for England.

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