!Spring
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agk's diary
13 April 2023 @ 19:15 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1
while Evy sleeps; 1st daughter chats with her doll:
"sleepy? ...no! sleepy? ...no!"
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Spring's here. A week ago it only threatened. Red-
bud blossoms are pink and tasty on the branch,
dogwood flowers in woods, violets in grass, trout-
lilly leaves by the creek. Mayapples poked from
damp leaf litter, wind gusted.
Robins nest, everything's up now: spring onions &
ramps, backyard horseradish, garlic mustard, field
plantain, yaller dock. Vines climb snags, sun
burns skin, first daughter sleeps in her bike
chariot on the way home from library & playing
with Bugz's dogs.
Evy and I are working to get passenger rail back
in our part of the country for the first time
since 1968. We talk to city councils, unions, the
state transportation cabinet. Some of what we do's
more rugged.
We followed CSX track through Rockcastle County KY
mountains, walked in abandoned tunnels, marveled
as surging brown flood-stage creeks nearly took
out bridges. Far from everything we carried first
daughter down the tracks and kissed.
