MARCH in the NORTH ISLAND....

ON A MARCH DAY (1918) by Sara Teasdale 

( Reflection from post WW 1, appreciation of life and nature, and the hope of spring and new life...)

Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind

That shakes the naked shadows on the ground

Making a keyboard of the earth to strike

From clattering tree and hedge a separate sound

Bear witness to me that I love my life

All things that hurt me and all things that healed

And that I swore it this day in March

Here at the edge ...

of this new-broken field

 You only knew me

...tell them I was glad

For every hour 

since my birth....

And that I ceased to fear

................as once I feared

The last complete reunion with earth.....

    "Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.." 

                                                                  -Virgil A. Kraft

Photographs 2025.  Campbell River, BC, Canada