Winter winds down and it’s been too long since I shut myself off from the cold, cold world. I drew my breath all the way down to my roots, buried myself in the frozen earth, hidden from sight and safe from…

Winter winds down and it’s been too long since I shut myself off from the cold, cold world. I drew my breath all the way down to my roots, buried myself in the frozen earth, hidden from sight and safe from…
The children didn’t mind me when I filled their fields with tiny yellow starbursts for as far as the eye could see. I grew toward the sun and no one looked away nor sighed nor wondered what to do with…