Saturday, 31. March 2007
All Their Names
Strolling in Central Park, Auden in hand, he looks with astonishment at the buds about to break into bloom, and curses human memory, which was lovingly instructed by his old friend in that Southern City where spring must have already unfurled her flamenco skirt, on the etymology of the names of these trees, which he now struggles to name: star magnolia, crab apple, elm, white pine, hawthorn.
My Daily Notes
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