April is the Cruellest Month

April is the Cruellest Month.

"April is the Cruellest Month" is a photograph by Karl Jones.

The Waste Land

Excerpt from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot:

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

• The Waste Land @ Poetry Foundation

History

I took the photograph on the morning of Monday, 18 April 2021 in the front yard of my home in Ely, Minnesota.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against light
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Ely, Minnesota (nonfiction)
• Light (nonfiction)
• Photography (nonfiction)

External links

• Post @ Facebook (18 April 2021)
• Post @ Twitter (18 April 2021)