Yesterday, daffodils split the soft soil to rise and bloom and dangle golden.
Today, sudden, overnight, this has come.
The soft snow may insulate new shoots, even at 20°F.
Our March did come in lamb-like, promising an exit snow.
Nine inches piled on the railings, in the icy air.
But the ground, still warm, sucked the first six inches down.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, it is the day of the amaryllis, unfolding.
This salmon-pink giraffe, 35 inch stalk,
will open all the way tomorrow,
and the snow be gone.