"All sparkling with dew"... Spring and its flowers return to Cambridge, 2016 (Flower Power, #1)

After an experience of coming near to death and being left hardly able to walk, this became a most sobering period of my life, without question.

As a result of my caution and the possibility of another crippling fall, I retreated from so many of my favorite haunts and focused on the written word, which I more easily control, for I am the master of the lyric voice, and I never needed it so much, after I lay sprawled, concussed, isolated, and in despair.

One day, a few months ago, I finally dec...