‘And you’re two months back’

Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet), in Vermont.

— Photo by Niranjan Arminius

“….You know how it is with an April day

When the sun is out and the wind is still,

You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,

A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March….’’

— From “Two Tramps in Mud Time,’’ by Robert Frost (1874-1963)