Sprout

18 x 23 cm ✦ Ink and gouache on paper

"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?"

–T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”, 1922