Choose carefully. Either way, the roses are already opening toward something that hasn't named itself yet.
But here is the deeper truth: Spring does not finish — it becomes. Its green deepens into the slow rust of August. Its tentative warmth builds into the fever of July. Its hope does not die; it ripens into something heavier, less forgiving, but still alive. You cannot draw a line between the bud and the fruit, between the first warm rain and the drought, between the hand held in April and the hand let go in June.
Perhaps spring finishes the moment you stop noticing the green returning. When the first cherry blossoms have fallen and you no longer turn your head toward the scent of wet earth after rain. It finishes when the morning chill becomes a relic you remember fondly rather than a touch on your skin. In the suddenness of an afternoon when the sun feels not warm, but insistent — when the shade is no longer a choice, but a necessity.