Muffling fog
Rain squalls
Sunless damp
Trickle away.
Cleansed cobalt
Swelling buds
A burst of velvet pinkness.
Camellia!
You herald my springs.
Carol McMillan is an anthropologist and author from the United States. She lives in Hawaii with two naughty cats, where she currently serves as president of the Hawaii Writers Guild. Her upcoming memoir, Scriptless, recounts the critical years of the late sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area, as experienced through Carol’s life during her early twenties.