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On Spring On Earth, Spring is a noun, a verb and an adjective. In Faerie, Spring is a pronoun without antecedent or a preposition without a following clause. Spring too is the birth of an object immaculately conceived, hewn in the rough shape of the living from an oblong stone mistaken for an egg. Spring is a rain in the absence of clouds and a rain in a sky of cottoned gray and the wet greens which follow both. Spring is also the spirit invoked in the druidic litany, The Closing of the Way. It is the duty of Spring to usher the spirits of the as-of-yet unincarnated into their corporeal forms. It is no easy task for the assumption of a new form can be a jarring, even nauseating experience. Spring must massage feeling into the limbs, coo words of comfort and, under dire circumstances, terminate the delivery. In this role, the preposition Spring adopts is "until". 
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