Manhattan #45, Seasons #6, Architecture #42

“The One Advantage of a New York Tenement,” Life (June 13, 1895)

Seasons #5

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Wallace Stevens, journal entry (March 4, 1906)

Seasons #4, Order of the Universe #16

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1923)

Seasons #3, D is for Dickinson #4

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown —

Who ponder this tremendous scene —
This whole Experiment of Green —
As if it were his own!

Seasons #2

Verano (Summer)
From a cigarette card series of the four seasons (c. 1900)

Seasons #1, WCW #3

Warm rains
wash away winter's
hermaphroditic telephones

whose demonic bells
piercing the torpid
ground

have filled with circular
purple and green
and blue anemones

the radiant nothing
of crystalline
spring.

"The Hermaphroditic Telephones," William Carlos Williams (1924)