Spring Metaphor

I enjoyed this spring metaphor from Toni Morrison’s Jazz:

After a light rain, when the leaves have come, tree limbs are like wet fingers playing in wooly grown hair.

Here Morrison compares a spring rain on leafy tree leaves with running fingers through hair.

I was enjoying reading a library hardcover of the novel until I realized that someone had marked the text with notes. I stopped reading that copy and switched to an ebook version on my kindle — also from the library.