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Spring
After two unpredictable spells
of influenza that winter
I was taking no chances
(not even to put the rubbish outside)

pulling on my old black jacket
resolutely winding
a scarf round and round my neck
winter rituals I had grown to
accept
with all the courage of an unemerged
butterfly
I unbolted the door and stepped outside

only to have that daffodil baby
kick me in the eye

Grace Nichols. In: The Fat Black Woman's Poems. London: Virago, 2011