DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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It seems I have lived here a long time. Some of the covered bridges are gone. But I saw a rabbit crossing the street the other day. Brown,wild. I know where to get bunches of lilacs in the spring. Not stealing either. I know the alleys and the windchimes on front porches. I have watched the Christmas lights strong from the courthouse to the square. Swinging lightly in the winds, I remem- berthe Banner before it burned down. Just that once it was there. And then it wasn't. I know the milkweed before it flies. Maybe you do too. IIBecause I know that time is always time And place is always and onIy place And what is actual is actual only for one time And onIy for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed face And renounce the voice Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice. -T. 8. Eliot from HAsh Wednesday

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Nature never waits to be cataloged, analyzed. It never asked for all those Latin names. tLlriodendron tulipferae obviouslydicotyledonousy Hell, man is such .a crazy namer of things. When spring comes, will you read your botany book? Go down to Big Walnut and sit on a log. Go swimming in the hidden quarry. Take a canoedown Sugar Creek and seeforyourself. Pink and white Dutchman's breeches along thelimestonecliffs. Violets, yellow ones too, down by the creek. Fiddlehead ferns in the woods. Redbud RIGHT HERE in lndiana. Not really from Japan? Look up the trunk of a tuliptree. Stoop down to find the Mayapple. Water rushing ov e r Cataract Falls. The civilized backyard yields a crocus a tulip a daffodil. I have my places. You find your own. Or 4...we can share ours together. For spring is here today, maybe tomorrow, but not forever.

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