Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Growing Old in Winter


This cutting cold chews steadily away 
at my obscene desire to be.
And I pause, frightfully a-freezing, 
faintly sensible 
to palpable life's crying pleas 
for doings and goings and lovings... 
and talk...and laughter.

Other seasons, they surely await me---
somewhere a spring . . .
even, God-willing, a summer?
                           ---RLW

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