Persephone's Spring

2020 was the year of the Lost Spring. Persephone did not come back from the underworld. Spring Maiden did not bring spring to us this year. I look, I search all over for her; I scramble, I strive, I run and run and keep on running....like Forrest Gump, as though there's no tomorrow. I wrote one villanelle per day since 3/16/2020, before shelter-in-place was announced in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. And this morning, 5/4/2020, I stop running, take a breath, and discover I did not ...