Just Before April Came
THE SNOW piles in dark places are gone. Pools by the railroad tracks shine clear. The gravel of all shallow places shines. A white pigeon reels and somersaults. Frogs plutter and squdge-and frogs beat the air with a recurring thin steel sliver of melody. Crows go in fives and tens; they march their black feathers past a blue pool; they celebrate an old festival. A spider is trying his webs, a pink bug sits on my hand washing his forelegs. I might ask: Who are these people?
Just Before April Came - meaning Summary
Spring Presence in Small Lives
Sandburg’s short poem records a close, sensory scene of late winter turning to spring: melting snow, shining pools, playful birds, frogs calling, a spider testing webs, and a bug grooming. The speaker catalogs small animal gestures and then asks who they are, prompting a quiet wonder at the liveliness and personhood of ordinary creatures and the sudden recognition of communal life returning with the season.
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