Happy Imbolc!

Now it’s St Brigid’s Day and the first snowdrop
in County Wicklow, and this a Brigid’s Girdle
I’m plaiting for you, an airy fairy hoop
(Like one of those old crinolines they’d trindle)

— Seamus Heaney (@HeaneyDaily) February 1, 2018

In the Celtic calendar Imbolc marks the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox, the earth’s wakening from cold and the start of lambing.

More Heaney and St. Brigid's Day here.