A youthful second .

by @d-pend .

A youthful second __________________

Mechanical trees and paper leaves; stems and stalks of legacies sit squat beneath the shaded eaves of seasons growing wan.

Across the withered lawn and dirt where older scars run underfoot: newer creatures run and skirt the obstacles warm-bright.

The light of clinging March extends to fondle all the drooping stems between the brush, around the bends of springtime soon to pass.

And so, alas, the pollen-days quick overtake the sullen corse of winter's melancholy ways a youthful second long.

words and images by @d-pend created for HIVE on March 17, 2020. _{images are original photographs taken with iPhone 8+, processed with Deep Dream and edited in Final Cut Pro.}