"Like the moon in the blue sky / I want to embrace transience and reach out my hand"

[larryhammer]

I have no brain, not even enough to write up rereading Fruits Basket, so clearly the thing to do make a poll.

Suppose, just for the sake of a hypothetical, someone was writing cycle of daily short poems documenting a year of Arizona desert life. What would be the best date for the cycle to start? This could be for logical, logistical, aetiological, dramatic, or any other reasons.

[Poll #1440262]

"The sky is endless, because it's a mirror of my heart / it's like it reflects how every day changes colors"

---L.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Autumn equinox is an approximate -- really it's whenever the monsoons end that the desert year begins, as we all wake up and come out of hibernation.

Though for poetry collection purposes, one could argue for the start of spring as a better starting (and thus ending) place.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Spring, when the desert blooms. When better to start the year than with life and color?

[larryhammer]

Which here begins well before the spring equinox, though. By February, blooming is well underway.

---L.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

The first monsoon.

[larryhammer]

There's a reasonable argument for that. The biggest issue would be that the monsoons arrive on a variable date, and a written work would be fixed.

But then, there's the same problem with the Chinese and Jewish New Years.

ETA: unless, of course, one localized on the traditional start on St. John's day. Which was also, in other places and times, the traditional solstice.

---L.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Monsoon is a moveable feast, like Passover. Start with spring, whenever you decide that is. If it's Feb. then the Ides of February? Groundhog Day? Valentine's Day? Candlemas?

[larryhammer]

Candlemas, as a substitute cross-quarter, has possibilities. The first wildflowers bloom soon after.

---L.