Yesterday, daffodils split the soft soil to rise and bloom and dangle golden.

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Today, sudden, overnight, this has come.

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The soft snow may insulate new shoots, even at 20°F.

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 Our March did come in lamb-like, promising an exit snow.

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Nine inches piled on the railings, in the icy air.

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But the ground, still warm, sucked the first six inches down.

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Meanwhile, in the kitchen, it is the day of the amaryllis, unfolding.

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This salmon-pink giraffe, 35 inch stalk,
will open all the way tomorrow,
and the snow be gone.