april, n.Definitions

April is changes.

April is the month when the green returns to the lawn, the trees and the Internal Revenue Service.

April is a month that brings the primrose sweet, and scatters daisies at our feet.

April is when there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

April's days sometimes carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

April is the time every year when God rewrites the book of Genesis.

April is the cruelest month (as T.S. Eliot says) because we come to expect too much from a world which burgeons with promises it can't keep.

April is a month whose bare twigs enhance our pleasure, for we know the good time is yet to come while bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness, for we feel the good time is well-nigh past.