Practically Poetic by Pamela Bennett

Looks like February is not the cruelest month….it just feels that way. I was positive the second month of the year was called the cruelest by an old poet—after all, it’s the last month of winter and the weather is usually lousy. But when I looked up the phrase (thank you, Google), T.S. Eliot actually called April the cruelest month in his long poem “The Wasteland.”   April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing