Come Leaves Burst v3

[ChristopherSea]

Jeremy, since John Galt mentioned your title, I have to confess that I mistook ‘come leaves burst' as autumn at first. Possibly because the sudden stop of chlorophyll production and the fiery bleed through of carotenes before leaf scission is like a slow motion torch job to me. However, the snow and the foreshadowing of spring flowers made late winter/early spring evident. I like the action in the title. You capture bud rupture and leaf unfurling in the phrase. We watch the buds swell, but never quite catch the leaves testing the air with their tongues. It is as if they burst forth like fireworks in a moment, when we are not looking.

Jeremy, what do you think of an Autumn connotation for ‘When Leaves Burst’? I do think it works much better for Spring.